Sentences with phrase «teacher merit bonuses»

North Carolina's teacher merit bonuses are booming, with about 8,800 expecting raises in this week's paycheck based on their students» 2017 achievements.

Not exact matches

In 2011, Carvalho helped implement a merit pay system — considered anathema to most teachers union officials, including Weingarten — that tied raises to teachers» evaluation scores and provided bonuses for highly effective teachers.

Does evidence that the New York City bonus program did not lead to marked gains in student achievement, at least in the program's first two years, mean that merit pay for teachers in general does not work?

The New York City bonus - pay program provides us with a valuable opportunity to study the effect of merit pay for teachers in an experimental setting.

The first idea, merit pay, entailed rating teacher effectiveness annually and awarding a bonus accordingly.

That city's merit - pay plan proposed in 2002 was overwhelmingly voted down by teachers (1892 to 73), even though it did not base bonuses on student test scores.

«From the perspective of a teacher's union,» says Weissmann, «it's easy to see how this would make the [merit pay] concept even more unpalatable — who wants to subject themselves to the stress of seeing their bonus stripped away?»

Some locales have diluted the merit pay concept by making the bonuses to teachers small and setting the bar for receiving the bonuses low, thereby converting merit pay into something approximating 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.

Karthik Muralidharan, in still another RFT, shows that not even a merit bonus can get India's teachers to show up for class, though it does get them to teach more effectively when they are present.

In Florida, for example, teachers widely criticized a merit - pay plan approved by the state legislature in 2006 as unfair and divisive because it allowed for only one - quarter of all teachers to receive bonuses.

Ed Next recently published an evaluation of the impact of a merit pay plan in New York City that awarded bonuses to all teachers in schools that met performance targets.

Thus, having made participation in the career ladder voluntary for teachers in 1987, it was perhaps inevitable that the Tennessee legislature in 1997 voted to prevent additional teachers from entering the program and becoming eligible for merit bonuses.

Kaukauna used its $ 1.5 million surplus from 2011 — 12 to create a $ 300,000 merit - based bonus system for its 235 full - time teachers.

«The merit pay bonus systems have not really survived, because the districts have not been able to document differences in teachers performance.»»

Third, it created a merit - pay system in which teachers whose pupils pass certain exams get bonuses.

Cincinnati's merit pay plan, proposed in 2002, was overwhelmingly voted down by teachers (1892 to 73), even though the program did not base bonuses on student test scores, but rather on a multifaceted evaluation system that included classroom observations by professional peers and administrators and portfolios of lesson plans and student work.

The tight budgetary environment played a big supporting role in the D.C. contract, in which teachers got a 21.6 % salary boost and a bucket of bonus dollars in return for substantial concessions on job protections, seniority, and merit pay.

Further, promoting merit pay for other teachers could mean something as simple as giving bonuses to teachers who use their time and money to gather board certifications and to feed the higher - ed machine.

Mulgrew also blasted the governor for being behind «corporate bonus - style merit pay,» claimed that his «education agenda isn't about education at all — it is political payback» (because the unions did not support his reelection bid) and that «it is poverty and inequality and lack of funding, not «failing schools» or «bad teachers,» that are at the root of our education system's struggles.»

Though Ahn and Vigdor concede that North Carolina's implementation of AYP — including merit bonuses to teachers who increased student test score growth — may have ameliorated any possible «adverse impacts» on either top - performing or struggling students, they conclude that high - performing kids can benefit from accountability.

While the UFT has backed some experiments with bonuses before and has said that teachers should be able to advance without having to abandon the classroom, it has steadfastly opposed any efforts toward merit pay.

NASHVILLE — Offering middle - school math teachers bonuses up to $ 15,000 did not produce gains in student test scores, Vanderbilt University researchers reported Tuesday in what they said was the first scientifically rigorous test of merit pay.

Desertdiva1 — DC teachers who were rated «highly effective» were indeed given the choice to accept large merit bonuses in exchange for job security.

Randi and the AFT have blocked all sorts of promising reforms, from teacher evaluation methods to charter schools to merit - based bonuses for effective teachers.

Critics of standardized testing say cheating is a result of the consequences that policymakers have attached to scores, from closing schools for poor performance to offering merit bonuses to teachers whose students do well.

Some of their most significant projects involve promoting charter schools to inject market competition and «choice» into the public sector, as well as using cash bonuses (merit pay) for teachers and to «incentivize» students.

My prediction — and my hope — is that as the flaws in these new systems are revealed — as known effective teachers get low scores and known ineffective teachers receive value - added merit - pay bonuses — the public will demand that these systems are dismantled before they do any more damage.

Do any of the three teachers deserve a merit bonus?

As a «teacher - led» advocacy group, their stated goals are to end seniority, institute merit pay and replace tenure with what the group calls «earned tenure,» in which teachers who are able to push up standardized test scores are provided with greater job security and financial bonuses.

Education Secretary Arne Duncan has said he supports merit pay for teachers — a practice linking raises or bonuses to student achievement.

At most of the participating schools, merit bonuses for classroom teachers were based on the average learning gains for all students in their classrooms.

A key criticism of merit - pay plans is that teachers view these plans as secret formulas and have no idea why merit bonuses were or were not awarded.

Merit bonuses for administrators, supplementary teachers, and other staff were based on the learning gains of the school as a whole.1

Successful merit - pay plans should give out significant bonuses to teachers who accomplish their goals.

With private contributions from BASIS parents and community members, BASIS rewards teachers for student learning gains through merit - based bonuses.