Content tagged: performance pay
Buffalo News endorses flawed system of teacher compensation
http://www.nicholsoncartoons.com.au Yesterday, the Buffalo News reported that the Buffalo Public Schools and the Buffalo Teachers Federation had negotiated a new teacher evaluation system. But what is particularly...
Individual Teacher Incentives, Student Achievement and Grade Inflation
As the U.S. Department of Education moves ahead with efforts to bride states (“Race to the Top”) into its “model” of school reform, which includes some version of merit or performance pay for teachers, this recent study of the effect of performance pay for teachers on students’ test scores in Portugal is worthy of study. While there are some...
"The Political Economy of Educational Restructuring: On the Origin of Performance Pay and Obama’s “Blueprint” for Education," in The Phenomenon of Obama and the Agenda for Education Can Hope Audaciously Trump Neoliberalism? (Information Age Publishing)
