Thoughts on Education Policy

Many people noted the article on the turnaround of Brockton HS in yesterday's NY Times.  But I didn't notice anybody critiquing the ...

The most popular opinion of the last few days seems to be that the primary purpose of merit pay is to re-shape the teacher labor force by at...

The National Center on Performance Incentives released the final report on the Nashville performance pay experiment (known as POINT ) yeste...

Today marks the release of the National Center on Performance Incentives' report on the Nashville performance pay experiment (known as ...

Rick Hess' post on the Nashville performance pay experiment yesterday received a lot of attention.  In the post, Hess, a merit pay prop...

Part 4: What Can We Learn? Previous posts: Part 1: Background Info Part 2: What to Look For Part 3: Why it Matters Despite what Ri...

Part 3: Why it Matters Previous posts: Part 1: Background Info Part 2: What to Look For You may have noticed that I'm devoting a ...

Part 2: What to Look For The results from the Nashville incentive pay experiment are due to be released tomorrow (see last week's pos...

-The results from the Nashville incentive pay experiment are being released on Tuesday , so keep your eyes open . . . and check back here fo...

I'm somewhat skeptical of national polling on most educational issues, since the public doesn't truly understand much of what they...