The author doesn't think so ... and he has a pretty compelling argument.
Is Merit Pay the Answer?
By Kim Marshall
To most people, it seems obvious that teachers should earn more when their students do well. If salespeople get extra pay when they sell more products, why shouldn’t teachers be rewarded for higher test scores? U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, among others, has been talking up this idea.
But it turns out that merit pay is an ineffective strategy for improving teaching and learning. Here’s why.
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The president never tires of saying that we should pay more to “our best teachers,” and we know that he approves of using standardized test scores to identify the “best teachers
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