Merit pay and what everyone knows that ain’t so
This isn’t an analysis of the Ed Sector report Frozen Assets, since right now I’m still borrowing time from next week. But given the back and forth about the report from Leo Casey and Kevin Carey, I’ll provide a minor gloss on that conversation (or a reading of the readers’ reading of each other) in […]
BCS and NCLB
Right now, the teachers who work at Boise Senior High School have to be some of most anti-formula individuals in the whole country. First, they’re dinged on AYP because the school missed Idaho’s targets for one population group (students with disabilities). Now, their beloved local Boise State Broncos are the only undefeated Division I-A football […]
The week’s menu for Sherman Dorn
My week’s to-do list (PDF image file) is full. It’s the first day for my classes. One done, one to go. It’s chugging-along time for me… Missing from the to-do list: the blogging topics I noted yesterday and now the end of Michael Bérubé’s blog.
Bewildering misinterpretation of union position on merit pay/incentive pay
I’m confused: Kevin Carey identifies an off-the-wall statement of the Nashville teachers union leader in an article on an incentive-pay experiment in the district and interprets it as outright opposition to incentive pay: to get a sense of just how much some local teachers union officials hate the idea of merit pay… But the article […]
Harvard’s presidency
By Sherman Dorn on January 10, 2007
As I’ve said before, I don’t think higher ed discussions should revolve around Harvard, but I happen to know one of the apparent finalists for the top spot, and I know that this person would be absolutely fantastic and exactly what the institution needs. (If you know a few things about me and the other […]
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