{"id":836,"date":"2007-01-08T20:45:46","date_gmt":"2007-01-09T00:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=836"},"modified":"2007-01-08T20:45:46","modified_gmt":"2007-01-09T00:45:46","slug":"bewildering-misinterpretation-of-union-position-on-merit-payincentive-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=836","title":{"rendered":"Bewildering misinterpretation of union position on merit pay\/incentive pay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m confused: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quickanded.com\/2007\/01\/merit-pay-is-murder.html\">Kevin Carey<\/a> identifies an off-the-wall statement of the Nashville teachers union leader in an article on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20070107\/NEWS04\/701070381\/1001\/RSS01\">an incentive-pay experiment in the district<\/a> and interprets it as outright opposition to incentive pay: <em>to get a sense of just how much some local teachers union officials hate the idea of merit pay<\/em>&#8230; But the article makes clear that the same leader <em>approved<\/em> the experiment at issue <em>now<\/em> (and noted the Denver teachers union approval of ProComp), and the quotation may have reflected a history of problematic pay-out promises in the district (assuming that the reporter quoted the union activist accurately and in context). <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/joannejacobs.com\/2007\/01\/07\/merit-pay-boosts-scores\/\">Joanne Jacobs<\/a> correctly noted the union support of the program at issue.<\/p>\n<p>Larger point here: unions are not unalterably opposed to differential pay, as long as it&#8217;s constructed collaboratively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;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&#8230; But the article [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","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_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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-836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-policy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-du","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836","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=836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}