Sentence examples for teacher merit from inspiring English sources

But there are other ways to measure teacher merit.

Mrs. Clinton attacked Mr. Giuliani's push for teacher merit pay, the issue that led to the breakdown in talks over the school program, calling it a crude and ineffective way to improve public education.

Lately we hear a lot about teacher merit.

Issues on the table include collective bargaining rights, teacher merit pay and evaluations, charter schools, among others, and reside in states like Florida, Georgia and Illinois.

"They could act and take bits and pieces of it and try a new bill on teacher merit pay or health care...or any of the parts of the bill that they think they can get passed," Foley said.

Cerf has been appointed acting New Jersey commissioner of education by Gov. Christie, and is intent on implementing many of the same divisive policies that have been tried and failed in New York City, including charter school co-locations and expansion, and teacher merit pay, linked to unreliable test scores.

Mr. Romney was also disappointed that Mr. Crist vetoed a teacher merit-pay bill on Thursday that was a high priority for Republican lawmakers and former Gov. Jeb Bush.

As part of a controversial teacher merit-pay law adopted by the Florida Legislature last year, half of a teacher's evaluation is now based on student test score data, and the other half on a new, more detailed method of observing teachers in action.

The stakes are even higher in Indiana, where teachers' merit pay is tied to student performance on the tests.

For example, a lot has been written about tying teachers' merit pay or jobs to how well their students do on standardized tests.

A May 1 letter objects to basing teachers' merit pay on test scores because of the incentives for cheating that would be created.