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The Sheepskin Effect and Student Achievement: De-emphasizing the Role of Master’s Degrees in Teacher Compensation

July 1, 2012

BY Laura Anderson

Raegen Miller and Marguerite Roza

Published in July 2012 by Center for American Progress

This brief dissects the nation’s sizable investment in master’s bumps as a means of highlighting policy obstacles to a more smartly differentiated compensation approach.

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