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• Bushs think-tank is making movies

  
  SmallTalk — Authority: 521
  Break out the popcorn The new George W. Bush Institute describes itself as an "action-oriented think-tank." Its first action will be the production of a series of films. The first one (I guessed it. Did you?) is about "merit" pay for teachers.
  6 days ago

• Blocking a Federal Education Grant

  
  Threads from Henry's Web — Authority: 120
  While I know that some forms of determining merit pay for teachers can be unfair, in general I think tying pay to performance is an excellent, indeed necessary idea. Now the Florida Education Association is trying to block $700 million in grants from the federal government because it’s tied to incentive pay. ...
  1 week ago

• WEEKEND QUOTABLES

  
  SmallTalk — Authority: 521
  Chasing Ayn Rand "In K-12 education, we submit, greed can be good, albeit ugly." ( Fordhams Finn and Hess) 9 good arguments against "merit" pay, including: The best teachers are already working incredibly long hours, and there’s no evidence that extra pay will make them work harder or smarter—or that it ...
  1 week ago

• Weekly Parenting News Roundup

  
  Mother Talkers — Authority: 141
  Cross-posted at Daily Kos . Good morning fellow moms, dads and caregivers! How are you this morning? I am fried . I managed to fill out and send out approximately 80 holiday cards, buy, wrap and mail out gifts this week. On the flipside, we did not put up lights or a Christmas tree this year as we will be out ...
  1 week ago

• School Board Gives Green Light to Teacher Incentive Performance Award

  
  Anti-BVBL — Authority: 137
  From the Supervisor of Community Relations Office, Prince William County Schools: On December 16, the Prince William County School Board approved the framework for a “Teacher Incentive Performance Award” (TIPA). This would provide a potential monetary stipend for all school-based, certificated employees included ...
  1 week ago

• Union kills bonuses for Boston teachers

  
  Joanne Jacobs — Authority: 591
  Boston’s teachers’ union has killed  a plan to pay bonuses to teachers whose students do well on the AP exam, reports the Boston Globe. An arbitrator has ruled the extra pay violates the union contract. The district wanted to give math teachers at a Roxbury school $100 for each student with a his score on the ...
  1 week ago

• Performance Pay for Teachers May Become Reality

  
  Mother Talkers — Authority: 141
  There is a bill moving through Congress that would award the highest performing teachers in the country, according to the Washington Post . Federal funding for performance pay in public schools would quadruple, to $400 million a year, under a bill moving through Congress that reflects the growing political ...
  1 week ago

• Today’s Quotable and Notable

  
  Flypaper — Authority: 602
  Quotable: “They could have took this test in French and done just as bad...No other city in the history of [NAEP] has done this bad.” -Tonya Allen, Founding Member of the Detroit Parent Network “ Detroit parents want DPS teachers, officials jailed over low test scores ,” The Detroit News Notable: $400 ...
  2 weeks ago

• why merit pay is the wrong way

  
  John Spencer's Blog — Authority: 132
  I dont want these guys to be paid based upon how many people they shoot You can download it at Internet Archives  or listen below photo credit
  2 weeks ago

• Changing “value added” terminology

  
  Flypaper — Authority: 602
  When Emmy returned from a Midwest REL conference on educator compensation in October, she brought with her a Center on Education Reform report on “alternative compensation terminology.” Not the most scintillating title, but the paper had some persuasive takeaways. Educators and policy makers have far too many ...
  2 weeks ago

• Incentives and Motivation

  
  Jay P. Greene's Blog — Authority: 501
  Surely we can find a happy medium? (Guest post by Greg Forster) I’ve just read a fascinating article – Frederick Herzberg’s “One More Time: How Do You Motivate Employees?” from the Harvard Business Review . The 1987 version, an update of the original 1968 article of the same title, went on to become ...
  2 weeks ago

• Illinois Races To The Top…Or At Least Toward Where They Were Before The Recession

  
  Understanding Government — Authority: 143
  The Chicago Current’s Katy Yeiser reports that the Illinois State Board of Education will apply for a $400 million slice of the Education Department’s $4.3 billion, stimulus-funded “Race to the Top” grant program. Illinois could really use the money: the state is borrowing $3.5 billion this year to ...
  3 weeks ago

• Merit Without Merit

  
  Edwize — Authority: 424
  In her Dec. 6 “Edwatch” commentary in the Providence Journal , columnist Julia Steiny says, “No evidence anywhere shows that merit-pay systems aimed at individual teachers improves education. Incentives to groups of teachers are effective, but not individuals.” She is to be commended for making this both ...
  3 weeks ago

• Washington Education Week #3: Thanksgiving Turkeys Edition

  
  I Thought a Think — Authority: 468
  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 ...
  4 weeks ago

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