The union, the United Federation of Teachers, indicated over the last week that it would seriously consider a plan that awards all of a school's teachers and other staff members merit pay, perhaps as a one-time bonus, when the school's students show overall improvement on various measures, including standardized tests.
Despite the potential for similarities based on factors such as (i) illness chronicity and (ii) ongoing compromised health status, specific conditions and their differing impact on family members merit research attention [ 14, 15].
It must have been a slow news day when the editors of the Sunday New Jersey section decided that the "striking" appearance of two new members, Kimberly Driscoll-Piscopo and Lauren Vanoni Vernon, merited a short article ("Beautifying the State , Arts Council Looks Within" Worth Noting, Feb. 3).
The City Council members do not merit much respect even at City Hall.
There are good reasons that the Brotherhood, with millions of members, doesn't merit the terrorist designation.
Only university professors and possibly a few teachers of elite secondary schools would have merited being called members of a profession in the sense that medical doctors, lawyers, or priests were professionals; in some countries even today primary-school teachers may accurately be described as semiprofessionals.
That ruling, a landmark case for immigration law, came about because of policy shifts by the Obama administration, which accepted arguments that victims of domestic violence in Central America merited protection as members of a social group.
Board members favour merit-based appointments and disapprove of institutional or group dominance of journals.
Connie Yowell, director of education at MacArthur, offers this example: a 4-H Club leader who helps his young members earn merit badges might earn a badge himself.
She had just run through a rehearsal of her speech onstage for the magazine's annual Women of the Year Awards due to start in a few hours, and was debating with a handful of her staff members the merits of using the word "Gaga-licious" in reference to the honoree Lady Gaga.
The Meyerhoff program neutralizes these factors through a combination of orientation programs for incoming freshmen, early involvement in scientific research, engagement with active research faculty members, and merit-based scholarships.
