Merit Pay Studies
Regular readers know I’m not a supporter of merit pay for teachers. The best piece I’ve seen outlining the reasons why it isn’t a good idea is a short piece titled What’s Wrong With Merit Pay by Diana Ravitch.
A new, short, report has just been published by the Education Commission of the States examining several studies on merit pay. How do they analyze them?
Avoiding Goal-Setting Problems — In The Classroom & In Education Policy
A new, short, report has just been published by the Education Commission of the States examining several studies on merit pay. How do they analyze them?
Avoiding Goal-Setting Problems — In The Classroom & In Education Policy
Goal Setting – Pitfalls and Benefits is a useful post about goal-setting issues. It has a couple of good links within the article itself, as well.
The article, and its links, are primarily focused on goal-setting in a business environment, but a number of the points raised can be useful to educators — both in the classroom and in thinking about broader education policy.
As regular readers know, I use goal-setting a lot with my students, and you can read more about how I do so in
The History Makers Digital Archive Is Pretty Impressive
The article, and its links, are primarily focused on goal-setting in a business environment, but a number of the points raised can be useful to educators — both in the classroom and in thinking about broader education policy.
As regular readers know, I use goal-setting a lot with my students, and you can read more about how I do so in
The History Makers Digital Archive Is Pretty Impressive
The History Makers Digital Archive is a collection of video interviews with 400 African Americans, including Barack Obama and other well-known figures.
That’s nice, but how their presented is what makes this site extraordinarily impressive. Here’s how they describe it:
As a registered user of the new web-based archive, you will be able to:
* Search the spoken text of over 900 hours of video divided into
That’s nice, but how their presented is what makes this site extraordinarily impressive. Here’s how they describe it:
As a registered user of the new web-based archive, you will be able to:
* Search the spoken text of over 900 hours of video divided into
