Writing for the Center for Teaching Quality’s TransformEd blog, educator Bill Ferriter reveals the following issues he believes every politician and parent should consider regarding merit pay in education:
- Experts in fields beyond education are convinced that merit-pay plans will not improve schools.
- Most merit-pay plans are built around high-stakes standardized tests, which rarely measure things students should know and be able to do.
- If policy makers want to incentivize something, that thing should be collaboration.
