{"id":2821,"date":"2010-12-06T13:53:19","date_gmt":"2010-12-06T17:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=2821"},"modified":"2010-12-06T11:56:42","modified_gmt":"2010-12-06T15:56:42","slug":"the-louis-rukeyser-memorial-award-for-overplaying-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=2821","title":{"rendered":"The Louis Rukeyser Memorial Award for Overplaying Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;<em>a <strong>slight<\/strong> jump in their test scores at schools where teachers received performance-based pay<\/em>&#8230; [emphasis added]<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/blogs\/gradebook\/content\/texas-study-suggests-teacher-merit-pay-works\">Texas study suggests teacher merit pay works [St. Petersburg Times Gradebook blog]<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone see the mismatch between the headline and the text? Reminds me of a common stock-market reporting tactic: &quot;The Dow Jones fell more than 14 points today!&quot; Yeah, right, and what was that in percentage terms? The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sharedcontent\/dws\/dn\/latestnews\/stories\/120610dntexmeritpay.3efeead.html\">Dallas Morning News story<\/a> includes appropriate caveats to the research, but at first blush, I&#39;d bet that even in this study (and plenty of studies show no effect), the cost-effectiveness of merit pay is about the same or lower than the cost-effectiveness of reducing class sizes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;a slight jump in their test scores at schools where teachers received performance-based pay&#8230; [emphasis added] via Texas study suggests teacher merit pay works [St. Petersburg Times Gradebook blog]. Anyone see the mismatch between the headline and the text? Reminds me of a common stock-market reporting tactic: &quot;The Dow Jones fell more than 14 points [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-policy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-Jv","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2821"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2823,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2821\/revisions\/2823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}