If you're familiar with the LA Times and their front page piece about how value-added measures can be so great for kids, and teachers, take a look at The Answer Sheet for 2/7/11. Then, take a look at this TED Talk on motivation by Dan Pink. It's very interesting material to think about. Basically seems to thoroughly validate the Vanderbilt study of merit pay from last year. Plain English: it doesn't work.
What do you think?
BTW, if anyone knows of an electronic edition of "Paying for Better Teaching: Merit Pay and Its Alternatives" by Lipsky, et al, 1984, I'd love to have the link. So far I know that it's available from Amason and paperback book swap.
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