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Friday, February 4, 2011

This Week In Education: Thompson: Early Performance Pay Results Are Not Promising

This Week In Education: Thompson: Early Performance Pay Results Are Not Promising

Thompson: Early Performance Pay Results Are Not Promising

Practical-span-articleLargeHouston's "reform" superintendent, Terry Grier complains that his performance pay system identified 92% of teachers as deserving bonuses, so he plans to cut it back. After the first year of the District of Columbia's performance pay plan, 40% of the teachers who earned bonuses turned them down because they did not trust their system's IMPACT