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Merit Pay Gets a Test. (Society).
Merit Pay Gets a Test Steven Malanga, "Why Merit Pay Will Improve Teaching" in City Journal (Summer 2001), Manhattan Institute, 52 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York, New York 10017
One of the long-running debates in education is how teachers should be paid. Teachers' unions argue that teachers, like other senior civil servants, should be paid more the longer they teach. Advocates of "merit pay" argue that the best teachers should get better pay than teachers who do a poorer job.
Although reformers have advocated "merit pay" proposals for the past 20 years, they've never been implemented, partly because no one has come up with a way that determines who the best teachers are in any school system. But now, reports Manhattan Institute fellow Malanga, some schools have figured out a way that could make merit pay work.
Cincinnati was the first city to test merit pay, beginning in 1999 with ten schools. Unions agreed to the proposal because it is teachers who evaluate ...
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...that most teachers qualify for awards. Merit pay proponents...observed that teacher opposition...failure of merit pay plans, and that teachers must be involved...attitudes toward merit pay among persons...Yet, most teachers are in the...reasons for ...
- Most in Poll Fault Merit Pay System;Fairfax Teachers Call Workload 1st Concern
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Peter Baker June 19, 1989 700+ words
...some form of merit pay for teachers, but 61...measure of teacher performance." Merit pay was second highest on the teachers' list of...s 8,500 teachers. Noting...literature against merit pay that the union has put in teacher mailboxes...
- Why Merit Pay for Teachers Just Doesn't Work
- Magazine article from: Our Schools, Our Selves Little, Doug July 1, 2009 700+ words
...journal, investigated merit pay and reluctantly reported...supporting the idea that merit pay had any appreciable...consistent positive effect on teacher classroom work." Kohn...lists the reasons why merit pay plans for teachers (and for many other...
- Fairfax Teachers Merit Pay Test Questioned
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post D'Vera Cohn April 24, 1987 700+ words
...ineffective teachers." The league...statement on merit pay, but has...rigorous teacher evaluation...year cost of merit pay and across...price of teachers' agreeing...s 8,300 teacher-scale employes...percentage of teachers to receive merit pay ...
- Fairfax Teachers Drop Support of Merit Pay; Union Sees Betrayal in Board's...
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Peter Baker March 16, 1989 700+ words
...regardless of teachers' support...the Fairfax merit pay program succeed...without the teacher cooperation...eliminate" the merit pay plan. The...s 8,500 teachers, agreed...the average teacher's salary...bonuses, teachers must volunteer...opening to sink ...
- Fairfax Merit-Pay Plan Revised by Proponents; Nearly All Teachers Would Receive...
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Michael D. Shear April 5, 1994 700+ words
...of the system's first merit-pay plan. Representatives of teachers unions and merit-pay opponents on the School...development and improve overall teacher salaries. "If they decide...have the largest block of teachers behind them," said Kelly...
- Fairfax Officials Still Unsure of the Cost of Teacher Merit Pay
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post D'Vera Cohn;John Ward Anderson May 13, 1987 700+ words
...how much the merit pay plan for teachers will cost...county in teacher pensions...the proposed merit pay plan, including...1 percent teacher pay increases...next year. Teachers are to get...years, and merit pay is proposed...
- Merit pay: good for teachers? Keep an eye on your paycheck--more districts may...
- Magazine article from: Instructor (1990) Drevitch, Gary January 1, 2006 700+ words
...Certification of Teacher Excellence...a national merit pay plan that...identify "master teachers" and give...most part, teachers' unions have...institute merit pay systems. One teacher explained...emotional for teachers. Our competence...
Source: HighBeam Research, Merit Pay Gets a Test. (Society).