Sentences with phrase «merit pay scheme»

It sounds more like those phony merit pay schemes that unions sometimes agree to that in reality pay teachers more for meeting requirements that have little to do with student performance.

Those who have cheated have in almost all cases done so because their positions were either threatened if scores did not improve or driven by extrinsic rewards such as equally foolish and ineffective merit pay schemes.

Islands unto themselves: How merit pay schemes undermine teacher collaboration.

And to add the icing to the cake, the Obama administration offered $ 442 million in grants to school districts that enacted merit pay schemes for teachers based on their students» test scores.

Career ladders are nothing more than a merit pay scheme with a different name.

New York City just dropped its merit pay scheme after a study commissioned by the New York City Department of Education showed the program on its own did little to boost student achievement.

Education historian Diane Ravitch writes: «Few people realize that merit pay schemes have been tried again and again since the 1920s.