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• Washington Education Week #3: Thanksgiving Turkeys Edition

  
  I Thought a Think — Authority: 426
  The Race to the Top: With the lull between budget announcements and Legislative Assembly Days, most of the blog chatter this past week has been looking at how Washington State measures up in the federal Dash for the Cash Race to the Top grant program. The League of "Education" Voters has done a 6 part series on ...
  2 days ago

• Quotables

  
  SmallTalk — Authority: 517
  Whats it all about? This is exactly what life is about. You get a paycheck every two weeks. We’re preparing children for life. —District of Columbia Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee ( Mark Slouka in Harpers ) Look Ma, Im a "school-based factor" “We firmly believe that in order to have a good ...
  1 week ago

• The Precedented Scale of Race to the Top

  
  JD2718 — Authority: 423
  borrowed from Tuttle SVC – a great education blog by Tom Hoffman from Providence (if you like this, go and read more of his stuff) Wednesday, November 18, 2009 The Precedented Scale of Race to the Top Tennessee — eligible for $150 – $250 million from RttT :   The city school board is expected to sign ...
  1 week ago

• Lower pay, no degrees, lots of ponds

  
  SmallTalk — Authority: 517
  At wealthy Prairie Crossing , charter school they pay teachers 10% less. Heres why: School Director Myron Dagley said he tries to peg an incoming teachers salary at about 90 percent of the pay at schools feeding the charter. He relies on the schools unique environmental mission and small class sizes to help with ...
  2 weeks ago

• Gen Y teachers are open to the idea of pay based on performance

  
  Sentinel School Zone — Authority: 438
  A new report shows that younger teachers are open to the idea of merit pay -- or rewarding teachers based on their performance in the classroom. Its an idea that unions have long criticized. According to a national survey of...
  2 weeks ago

• Today’s Quotable and Notable

  
  Flypaper — Authority: 598
  Quotable: “Charter schools are public schools, and they must be public schools in every sense of the word...Effectively, there will be absolutely no distinction between charter schools and district schools.” -Tom Boasberg, Superintendant of Denver Public Schools “ DPS unveils plans for changes in schools ,” ...
  2 weeks ago

• Discussion, not flaming torches, should drive teacher pay reform

  
  Liberty Maven Liberty Maven: For Liberty, One Individual At A Time — Authority: 565
  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 ...
  3 weeks ago

• One Small Step For Teacher Merit Pay

  
  Understanding Government — Authority: 435
  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 ...
  3 weeks ago

• Shopping at Macy’s

  
  Blog for Cranial Gunk — Authority: 92
  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 ...
  3 weeks ago

• No gains from Texas merit pay plan

  
  Joanne Jacobs — Authority: 603
  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 ...
  3 weeks ago

• 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 ...
  3 weeks ago

• Dallas ISD Daily Dish

  
  DALLAS ISD — Authority: 429
  Todays tray of hot district morsels ... ** Interesting nugget on our Opinion Blog about one staffer alleging that parents were hand-picked to meet with Superintendent Michael Hinojosa at her school. ** Some North Texas school districts and Dallas County Schools, which provides transportation to DISD students ...
  3 weeks ago

• Interesting tidbit

  
  Flypaper — Authority: 598
  Informative new report on school choice from Heritage Texas to streamline process for expanding great charters Disappointing results for merit pay plan ?
  3 weeks ago

• The Education Wars III

  
  Random Thoughts from Random Places — Authority: 148
  The Texas "merit pay" program for teachers didnt work like it was intended : For the $300 million spent on merit pay for teachers over the last three years, Texas was hoping for a big boost in student achievement. But it didnt happen with the now-defunct program, according to experts hired by the state. The ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Education Wars IV

  
  Random Thoughts from Random Places — Authority: 148
  Tying standardized test scores to teacher "evaluations" and pay is a bunch of ignorant tripe. As the piece notes, many teachers teach subjects not subject to standardized testing such as music, art, physical education, and special education. More important, though, is the fact few students take the standardized ...
  4 weeks ago

• Multiple measures for teacher assessment

  
  SmallTalk — Authority: 517
  "Not just test scores", says Duncan Arne Duncans recent call for use of multiple assessments in teacher evaluation should have gone without saying. Instead, it came only after months of struggle with teacher unions and advocacy groups. But Im concerned that, despite Duncans vague pronouncement, single ...
  4 weeks ago

• Merit Pay For Teachers

  
  Right on the Left Coast: Views From a Conservative Teacher — Authority: 508
  Merit pay is a touchy subject in education circles. This comment (to a post at Joannes site) points out so many of the thorny issues besides simply "knowing" whos a good teacher and who isnt.
  4 weeks ago

• WEEKEND QUOTABLES

  
  SmallTalk — Authority: 517
  Not funny The real secretary of education, the joke goes, is Bill Gates. ( AP Wire ) Jeb Bush, speaking to college Republicans Jen Goldstein ’11, a Florida resident, asked Bush to address criticism that the high stakes standardized tests create an environment that narrows the focus in the classroom to ...
  5 weeks ago

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