Sentences with phrase «merit pay offers»

Merit pay offers financial inventive to perform at a high level.

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She has started offering merit increases twice a year, and she pays all employees more than the minimum wage.

Chipotle also offers a highly competitive benefits package to all employees, including paid sick leave and vacation time for full and part time employees, along with tuition reimbursement and merit - based increases.

He pointed to Newark, N.J., which offers merit pay to teachers, as a prime example of what the city should be doing.

These studies offer no conclusive recommendations regarding the optimal role of merit pay in U.S. school systems, leaving policymakers largely dependent on studies on other countries for information about how best to implement merit pay programs.

Minnesota's oft - heralded «Q Comp» program offers yet another example of a «merit pay» program that ends up as an across - the - board pay raise.

A strong, well - designed merit - pay plan requires more than offering a bonus to high - performing teachers while paying the remainder according to the standard schedule.

Efforts to create rigorous standards for teachers, to evaluate them against such standards, and to offer differential or «merit pay» fly against the egalitarian ethos of the teaching profession.

While these calculations illustrate the magnitudes of teachers» impacts on students, they do not by themselves offer a blueprint for the design of optimal teacher evaluations, salaries, or merit - pay policies.

The Obama administration — which has clashed with some in the teaching profession over issues such as merit pay and evaluations — is launching a national teacher - recruitment campaign, complete with a website that offers information on how to enter the field.

We have seen urban public schools successfully adopt many charter school «secrets,» including the nine - hour school day (e.g., United for Success Academies in Oakland); a rigorous, standard curriculum (e.g., the more than a dozen Chicago public schools that offer the International Baccalaureate); merit pay (e.g., the Washington, D.C., system); and the regular use of teacher video in professional development and evaluation (e.g., the Houston system, which was using video in this way as early as the 1980s).

And it offers financial rewards to urban school districts that improve performance through initiatives like merit pay for teachers.

«We find that aggregating results from multiple studies across different cultural, economic and political contexts suggests that incentive pay, as argued by merit pay advocates, offers a promising strategy,» the Vanderbilt study concludes.

It does not call for merit pay tied to student test scores, which Bloomberg has supported and the city teachers union has said it would never accept, nor does it support Bloomberg's recent proposal to offer permanent pay raises to teachers who earn top ratings on new evaluations.

Charter schools appear to offer the choice and competition — which we have idealized — we believe can raise the quality of education, but increasing funding of charter schools proves to be as flawed as teacher merit pay.

The $ 4.5 billion «Race to the Top» competitive school funding grant program encourages states to offer merit pay as an incentive.

She pointed to four school districts that reportedly used Act 10 reforms to save money, reduce class sizes, hire teachers and offer merit pay.

Waconda does not link student test - scores to teacher evaluations or offer merit pay to its teachers; it has no plans to distribute iPads to students.

They claim by offering competition and choice — like merit pay, charter schools and vouchers --- student achievement will improve while lowering cost.

This document should be used to inform and educate educators at schools where merit pay is being offered or has been offered on why we should not allow merit pay in our schools.

In national surveys, when teachers are polled as to the best way to boost their effectiveness, their number one recommendation is to reduce class size — far above any other reform offered, including merit pay.

The study's findings, however, might offer some insights for Indiana school districts, which are beginning to figure out how to implement state - mandated teacher evaluation policies and merit pay plans.

Places like Kirkus and Midwest Book Review do offer paid review services, but these are handled by trained, professional reviewers who will objectively weigh the merits of your work.

The point here is straightforward, but easily ignored: the conditions into which every game appears are set by the games that are already being played, and when this isn't taken into account, there is a tendency to produce games that — whatever their merits — acquire no audience because they are either too hard to learn or do not offer an imaginative fantasy players will pay for.

When the august and ever - expanding Museum of Modern Art offers one of its biggest exhibitions of all time, attention must be paid — who could merit that kind of attention, given the fact that such titans as Willem de Kooning have recently had major events at MoMA?

They offer everything from merit - based pay plans, to nondiscretionary incentive - based pay plans, to discretionary bonus plans, stock options, learning and developmental opportunities, as well as other perks like gym memberships or catered lunches.»

Zwick says another advantage of incremental, regimented seniority pay, as compared to meritocracy, is that employers can offer long - term incentives without the disadvantage of having to decide who merits a bonus, which eliminates creating what he calls «losers.»