Much has been said about teacher pay: It’s adequate or it’s definitely not enough , it impacts teacher retention or maybe it doesn’t , and it should or should not correlate to student performance, to name just a few hot-button topics. Recently, there’s been more exploration of pay policies to incentivize teachers to work in hard-to-staff roles or schools. Now, researchers from Texas State University have released a study that provides a remarkably broad view of this existing work, examining teacher compensation trends in hard-to-staff schools nationally over the course of three decades.