Teacher Merit Pay Has No Merit, Again
First, the ground-splitting Vanderbilt study. And now this from New York City, a study conducted, no less, by pay for performance fan, Roland Fryer. If this doesn't finally end the fascination with this line of stupidity, what will.
From Elizabeth Green at Gotham Schools (ht to Monty Neill):
From Elizabeth Green at Gotham Schools (ht to Monty Neill):
New York City’s heralded $75 million experiment in teacher incentive pay — deemed “transcendent” when it was announced in 2007 — did not increase student achievement at all, a new study by the Harvard economist Roland Fryer concludes.
“If anything,” Fryer writes of schools that participated in the program, “student achievement declined.” Fryer and his team used state math and English test scores as the main indicator of academic achievement.
