JERRY ORGAN, a professor at the University of St. Thomas School of Law in Minneapolis, has been one of the few academics to study law school merit scholarships.
How can I advise her to make a decision based on school merit and not out of a young foolish heart?
Education scholars have watched public school merit pay plans come and go and come again since the first United States experiment, in Texarkana, Ark., the beginning of a national incentive program spearheaded by President Richard M. Nixon.
Maybe charter schools, merit pay and vouchers won't instantly turn every American child into a test-acing dynamo.
Adam Urbanski, president of the Rochester Teachers Association, said Mr. Brizard promoted policies that teachers found unpalatable, like promoting charter schools while wanting to close public schools, merit pay and dismissing the views of parents and teachers.
An education scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, Hess supports just about every imaginable path to increasing competition in education: charter schools, merit pay for teachers, vouchers, even for-profit academies.
The changes they seek include more charter schools, merit pay-based compensation, union-free schools, lower-paid teachers, no tenure, vouchers, and achievement standards.
The award she has received is from Jeb Bush's nonprofit dedicated to the failed or unconstitutional strategies of private school vouchers, charter schools, merit pay and standardized testing.
We continue to advocate for commonsense reforms including greater accountability in schools, merit pay for high-performing teachers, fair removal of ineffective teachers, and expanded access to charter schools.
And you dare say, "with your input and leadership?" Input that does not include more charter schools, merit pay, an increased emphasis on standardized tests, and drives to rid public schools of veteran teachers to make room for "better" teachers who go through six weeks of Teach for America training, is ignored.
"We're seeing in the last year or so that the silver bullets are starting to lose their luster -- charter schools, merit pay and mayoral control," said Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers and a major figure in the country's debate about the role of teachers' unions in public education.
