...sure, compromise effective policy, compromise best practices, compromise our souls... I learn from Michael Larson that the meatheads at that Sioux Falls paper think that the "solution" to low teacher pay is for teachers to compromise and accept the worst…
Posts tagged as “merit pay”
The House Education Committee had the good sense yesterday to kill one of the ugly ghosts of last year's failed education "reform" package. House Bill 1166 would have thrown merit pay at the 10% of school districts with the lowest…
[Yup, I screwed up my reading of HB 1166 in my first post. Let's try again!] Mr. Montgomery notes the eerie cries in Pierre of the ghosts of HB 1234, the mostly bad ideas for education reform that Governor Daugaard…
Alas, even my fellow teachers can get policy wrong. The Newark, New Jersey, teachers union just voted to accept a contract that includes merit pay. Of course, if you back teachers to the wall and drag them through two years…
In the political video battle, opponents of Referred Law 16 outnumber proponents so far 5 to 1. The backers of Governor Daugaard's really bad education reform bill give us one teacher preaching math based on imaginary numbers. Opponents lined up…
My Yankton friends cited Daniel Pink on the science of motivation early in the debate over the merits of Governor Dennis Daugaard's plan to wreck public schools with ineffective merit pay. I posted this animation of Pink's basic pitch: the…