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 […]
A Celtic love spoon for No Child Left Behind?
I know that the traditional fifth anniversary gift is wood, but do you really think a Celtic love spoon is right for NCLB, and what would be a better gift? (Update: One colleague’s suggestion: a baseball bat.) With the fifth anniversary of the law’s signing in 2002 (but it’s called the No Child Left Behind […]