TY  - JOUR
TI  - <p class="text">Teach or Perish: The Stavka System and its Impact on&nbsp;the Quality of Instruction&nbsp;</p>
T2  - Educational Studies Moscow
IS  - Educational Studies Moscow
KW  - teachers
KW  - teacher salary systems
KW  - the teaching load (stavka)
KW  - the weekly workload system
KW  - educational reforms
AB  - Steiner-Khamsi Gita -&nbsp;PhD Professor, Columbia University (New York, USA). Address: Columbia University,&nbsp;116th and Broadway, New York, N Y10027. E-mail: gs174@tc.columbia.eduThe post-Soviet teacher salary system is referred to as a "teaching load" (stavka)&nbsp;system, because the number of teaching hours accounts for the wide range&nbsp;of teachers&rsquo; income. This article discusses the challenges of the stavka system,&nbsp;presents a few changes and modifications over time, and provides examples&nbsp;of salary reforms of two countries: the 2007 teacher salary reform in Mongolia&nbsp;and the 2011 reform in K yrgyzstan. The UNICEF Kyrgyzstan study identifies&nbsp;six negative consequences of the high correlation between the salary and the&nbsp;number of hours taught: vulnerability of teachers, micromanagement of teachers,&nbsp;overcrowding of schools, vacancies as placeholders or "strategic vacancies",&nbsp;excessive teaching loads, the redistribution of teaching hours to non-specialists.&nbsp;The Government of Mongolia successfully replaced the teaching load&nbsp;system with a workload system in 2007. In Kyrgyzstan, the re-stratification process&nbsp;led to a revolt of those who lost in the wake of the reform. Within a period&nbsp;of two years only, they ensured that the stavka-system was, with a few exceptions,&nbsp;put back in place.&nbsp;
AU  - Gita Steiner-Khamsi
UR  - https://archive_vo.hse.ru/en/2016--2/185906021.html
PY  - 2016
SP  - 14-39
VL  -