Sentences with phrase «performance pay advocates»

He asked, in effect, «why do performance pay advocates assume teachers need added motivation?

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However, advocates of reforming executive pay — by linking it with performance and reducing incentives for risk - taking — argue the pay ceilings are so high they lack teeth.

Advocates of performance pay often say that implementing it will attract more people to the teaching profession and make those in the profession work harder, according to Douglas Harris, an economist with the Progressive Policy Institute, who has been studying performance pay for two years.

Other than the PLDD crowd in their alphabet soup of reform organizations, who will advocate for and sustain meaningful performance pay for teachers where performance is defined as compliance with centralized mandates?

One school of education reformers, including many of today's performance - pay advocates, would evaluate teachers primarily on the basis of their students» achievement.

The deal was hailed by many education advocates as one of the boldest performance pay plans in the country.

The study — being billed as the first scientific study in the U.S. of teacher performance pay — is only the latest blow to merit pay, which the Obama administration continues to advocate as part of its education reform strategy.

Advocates of performance pay did not immediately challenge the methodology of the study.

These newer groups» brand of education reform is data driven and accountability focused: They're advocating for stricter teacher evaluations that take student student performance on standardized tests into consideration; merit pay for teachers; better professional development for teachers; and the elimination or fundamental reworking of teacher tenure.

Instead she advocates for performance pay or merit - based pay system, which some districts across the country have implemented with varying results.