Business has long been accustomed to rewarding good performance with salary increases, but the birth of merit pay for teachers is proving both protracted and painful. Evidence that performance-related ...
Last month, Newark’s school district and local teachers union agreed on a contract that eliminates a key part of one of the most ambitious, and tumultuous, education reform overhauls of the past ...
One of the signature issues of businesspeople and conservative Republicans for the past 30 years has been merit pay. They believe in competition, and they believe that financial rewards can be used to ...
One of the bitterest controversies in today’s school-reform debate is merit pay—rewarding teachers not for seniority and the number of ed-school credits they’ve piled up, as public schools have done ...
Teacher merit pay is one of the hot “new” ideas of the moment. It has the wholehearted support of the Obama administration, which made it one of the criteria for states hoping to win a piece of Race ...
The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. The controversy ...
Merit pay is a major part of many hospitals’ compensation plans, but it does not always work because most employees striving for merit pay believe they are higher performers than their peers, ...
Teacher Pam Knight waited almost two years to receive what was supposed to be an annual bonus in her paycheck. The Oak Grove Primary kindergarten teacher is part of Lamar County School District's ...
MERIT PAY....Ruth Marcus heaps faint praise on Barack Obama for daring to mention the words "merit pay" at a teachers union meeting: "If you excel at helping your ...
Members of the Iowa DOGE Task Force discuss recommendations for streamlining Iowa's state government at the group's third meeting Aug. 6, 2025, in Des Moines, Iowa. (Maya Marchel Hoff/Gazette-Lee Des ...