Rolling out big federal bucks to fund merit pay for teachers the day after a major report found no benefit from merit pay was probably poor timing.
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This will probably cause some eye-rolling on the part of my local readers, but there's an interesting article in Inside Higher Ed on the real effect of merit scholarships, which is the term of art for "money given to stude
I have no time for a real entry, but if you haven't yet had your daily quota of sexist nonsense, check out these two links.
Confessions of a Community College Dean: Meritocracy and Hiring
A must read for those in the midsts of a decision about their operating system.