You do a good job and you are rewarded with merit pay and get promoted.
The Obama Administration has repeatedly expressed support for merit pay and using student data to evaluate teachers.
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They oppose education tax credits, school vouchers, charter schools, merit pay, and virtually all attempts to impose real accountability.
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He introduced merit pay for public workers and performance metrics for state agencies.
The city wanted to incorporate merit pay into its evaluation plan submitted to the state, but the UFT wouldn't agree.
Particularly offensive is Mr Obama's thick layer of competitive grants for favoured initiatives (merit pay and charter schools among them).
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Policymakers have pushed mostly carrot-and-stick remedies: firing underperforming teachers, giving merit pay to high performers, penalizing schools with poor student test scores.
Reform has been vigorously opposed, perhaps most egregiously in education, where charter schools, vouchers, academies and merit pay all faced drawn-out battles.
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Some school districts use this to reward effective teachers with merit pay.
In Newark, Mr. Christie helped usher in a form of teacher merit pay by shepherding contract talks between his hand-picked superintendent, Cami Anderson, and the Newark Teachers Union.
The report goes on to note that other countries are experimenting with merit pay and increased pay for teaching in tougher areas or teaching subjects in short supply.
Among their causes: charter schools, a push for merit pay for teachers, efforts to curb false eyewitness identification, and research to spur lawmakers to firm up government pension programs.
If enacted, it would mark a substantial step for the nation's largest public-school district, where the United Federation of Teachers has opposed Mayor Michael Bloomberg's efforts to introduce merit pay.
We must go forward in our commitment to the new basics, giving parents greater authority and making sure good teachers are rewarded for hard work and achievement through merit pay.
Decisions about whether or not to fund vouchers, have merit pay for teachers or extend the school year should be made by parents and local school boards, not by D.
Bill Thompson said Wednesday he would create a form of merit pay for some New York City teachers if elected mayor, giving the city's best teachers incentives to work in struggling schools.
Republican Joe Lhota, a former aide to Mayor Rudy Giuliani, has said he favors a more pure form of merit pay, which would involve giving teachers more money if their students improve their scores.
The bill is quite explicit about who gets merit pay (and how two lousy evaluations mean automatic firing) but kicks the problem of finding the money for those raises down to the school districts.
Some politicians believe there is a single silver bullet that will solve all of our problems in education, be it vouchers, merit pay, standardized testing, charter schools, a particular curriculum, or simply more resources.
Once a vocal proponent of No Child Left Behind, charter schools, vouchers, and merit pay for teachers, Ravitch decided sometime around 2006 that there was actually no evidence that any of those policies improved American education.
The researchers from the universities of Missouri and New Mexico State found that there was little relationship between merit pay and subsequent job performance, suggesting that individual awards did not provide incentives to work more effectively.
But the move would help the board and management make a better case to labor unions that they are spreading the pain to other GM constituents, including shareholders and executives, whose ranks are also shrinking while merit pay raises are being eliminated.
Some states and districts are looking to adopt a system like the one in Hillsborough County Public Schools in Florida, where the district created exams for every subject at every grade five years ago in an effort to award merit pay to teachers.
We have to move the conversation about teacher quality forward, beyond a narrow debate over merit pay and job protection, to one focused more broadly on how to insure that teachers receive adequate support and training to meet the academic needs of their students and to ascertain their effectiveness in the classroom.
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Third, it created a merit-pay system in which teachers whose pupils pass certain exams get bonuses.
His merit-pay proposal would expand the uses of a teacher-evaluation system still being hammered out for the city's teachers.
This opinion is supported by long-term research published recently in the United States, which tracked a sample of academics who had worked within a merit-pay system.
The action by 2, 800 staff (nearly half the workforce) at SC First Bank Korea is ostensibly over a merit-pay scheme, which would be at odds with Korean seniority-based traditions.
Mr. Thompson's plan bears some resemblance to merit-pay systems opposed by teachers unions in New York and elsewhere but it has differences, such as paying highly rated teachers more for taking on more challenging assignments.
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