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• A Process Worthy of the Importance of the Decision

  
  judgesonmerit.org — Authority: 127
  In an editorial in today’s Philadelphia Daily News , PMC offers this review of the 2009 judicial elections: Once again, judicial elections have left a bad taste in the mouth of Pennsylvania voters. It’s as if we all watched from the sidelines as some celebrities threw an expensive party, got into a fistfight ...
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• College Scholarships020

  
  College Education — Authority: 133
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• Ride her now....breed her later!

  
  Equine Now Horses for Sale — Authority: 174
   Kitty is a 15.3hh 2007 daughter of World Champion Sire An Awesome Secret. She is out of a performance producing daughter of Vision Maker named Visions Cutie. Kitty has been in training with Heather Runyon since December of 2007. She has 7 months of under saddle training and is doing well. Kitty was shown at the 2008 ...
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• Discussion, not flaming torches, should drive teacher pay reform

  
  Liberty Maven Liberty Maven: For Liberty, One Individual At A Time — Authority: 536
  We live in a time when government is a form of theater; that is, it manages us by appearing to manage us. The current administration, perhaps because it came in with so much support, has broken new ground in what I’m calling Fantasy Government. It rails against health insurance companies, after giving them ...
  23 hours ago

• Merit-Fitness-725T-Treadmill - Affordable Fitness

  
  3stepADS - Free Advertising Blog — Authority: 576
  Fitness is now affordable with the Merit Fitness 725T. And, you can get into shape without having to visit the gym.
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  Equine Now Horses for Sale — Authority: 174
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• One Small Step For Teacher Merit Pay

  
  Understanding Government — Authority: 139
  The Chicago Tribune’s John Keilman reports that the Chicago northern suburb of Evanston has started a system of merit pay for teachers. For the first time ever in any Illinois school district, teachers will be evaluated by the individual test scores of their students. This judgment will then combine with more ...
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• Shopping at Macy’s

  
  Blog for Cranial Gunk — Authority: 103
  Shopping at Macy’s is a metaphor for teacher merit pay. Sales associates at Macy’s work on commission. For every item they sell they get X percentage in addition to their base pay. Teacher merit pay (or pay for performance) would provide a teacher with X percentage in addition to their base pay for every one of ...
  2 days ago

• Public Confidence is Priceless

  
  judgesonmerit.org — Authority: 127
  The Harrisburg Patriot-News featured an op-ed by PMC’s Lynn Marks and Shira Goodman this weekend. The op-ed opens with a question about the money spent in the election — millions by the candidates and perhaps millions more by political parties and other third-party special interests: Only 20 percent of ...
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• Anirban Lahiri wins BILT Open golf

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  Greater Noida, Nov 8 (IANS) Anirban Lahiri bagged the highest prize money ever on the Aircel-PGTI when he won the BILT Open 2009 golf with a mammoth seven-stroke margin here Sunday.Bangalore-based Lahiri came up with a sublime effort on the final day to take home the winner’s cheque of Rs.1,616,500 at the at the ...
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• Moral Dilemma (4): Unequal Human Beings

  
  P.A.P. Blog - Human Rights Etc. — Authority: 434
  Another post in our blog series on moral dilemmas. It’s perfectly normal for people to feel more sorry about the death of a famous nobel peace price laureate than about a dictator. Although on some level, we cherish the equality of human beings and their equal worth, in practice we value people and their lives on ...
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• SOCKETTS ENCORE APHA REGISTERED SHOW HORSE

  
  Equine Now Horses for Sale — Authority: 174
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• Better living through home improvement

  
  quasify — Authority: 112
  As of this morning, my furniture is all here. So what next (besides unpacking these infernal bins)? A list of potential projects, for internal use only. Windows . The draft through them when closed defies all known laws of physics. Given cracks and condensation I’m guessing they’ll have to be replaced. ...
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• Matthias Ettrich Receives German Federal Cross of Merit

  
  fsdaily.com - Free Software News - Published news — Authority: 158
  KDE founder Matthias Ettrich was decorated with the German Federal Cross of Merit for his contributions to Free Software. Matthias was awarded the medal in recognition of his work spurring innovation and spreading knowledge for the common good.
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• Chancellor’s Dinner: The Value of Merit Scholarships

  
  Prepare For College — Authority: 154
  UCR scholars, artists, leaders and volunteers are able to pursue their academic dreams because of generous campus friends. The video was shown at the Chancellors Dinner on Saturday, Oct. 17 to raise awareness about the value of merit scholarships . At that dinner, the chancellor presented the UCR Medallion to the ...
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• No gains from Texas merit pay plan

  
  Joanne Jacobs — Authority: 617
  Texas spent $300 million over three years on merit pay for teachers, but saw no effect on student achievement , concludes a review by the National Center on Performance Incentives reviewed the now-defunct Texas Educator Excellence Grant. The state is now funding another merit pay plan, District Awards for Teacher ...
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• A better judge than a politician

  
  judgesonmerit.org — Authority: 127
  From our friends at Gavel Grab : Former Wisconsin Justice Louis Butler Jr. . . . . nominated by President Obama to the federal bench in Wisconsin, was asked by a GOP senator at a confirmation hearing in Washington about his defeat in two elections for the state’s high court.” We can only imagine the very ...
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• Lahiri takes a three-shot lead in BILT Open

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  Greater Noida, Nov 6 (IANS) Having won his last outing on the Indian domestic Tour, Anirban Lahiri indicated he is ready for more as he dominated proceedings on the second day of the BILT Open 2009.He set the Jaypee Greens course alight with a phenomenal seven under 65 that helped him establish a three-stroke lead ...
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• Judicial Election has Prominent Pennsylvanians Asking Big Questions

  
  judgesonmerit.org — Authority: 127
  Pete DeCoursey, bureau chief at the influential news source Capitolwire, has come to the realization that electing judges just doesn’t make sense. After covering judicial elections for over a decade, this election, with all its negative ads and astronomical costs finally tipped the scales (no pun intended). In a ...
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• Alter’s Ego

  
  The Core Knowledge Blog — Authority: 131
  A suggestion by Claus Von Zastrow of Public School Insights that pundits like Jonathan Alter who write about education be subject to performance pay attracted the notice of Alter, who has been mixing it up with commenters to the post.  It started when Von Zastrow took issue with Alter’s KIPP cheerleading and broad ...
  5 days ago

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