Bured in yesterday’s Ed Week write-up ($) of McCain’s speech was a quote that nicely sums up the common concerns over merit pay:
Bettye Oldham, a retired teacher from Cincinnati, said she had mixed feelings about the merit-pay proposal.
“I think it’s a good idea if it’s run correctly,” she said. “But you can’t judge teachers the [...]
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John McCain spent a lot of time in his NAACP speech in Cincinnati yesterday talking about the many teacher reforms he’d put in place–performance pay, a greater role for principals in staffing matters, and peer evaluations, among them. If McCain’s education advisors had been on the ball, they would have told the presumptive Republican presidential [...]
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03/11/10 | Kevin Carey is quoted on the rising costs of education in The Economist.
03/10/10 | Chad Aldeman's False Fronts paper is quoted on Accuracy in Academia.
03/09/10 | Ben Miller is quoted on Federal Family Education Loan defaults on The Huffington Post.
03/09/10 | Ben Miller is quoted on loan origination on the Firedog Lake blog.
03/07/10 | Kevin Carey calls for a Race to the Top in higher education in a column in The Chronicle of Higher Education.