| Or teacher C who is entertaining, but gets off track very easily. The class gets way behind on the AP curriculum, but they add lots of weekend study sections to catch up. The kids do well on the tests, why? Because they've been self-selected and they all study a huge amount outside class to cover all the material that has been missed. This is my son's current experience.
That said, even though I agree with a lot of Alfie Kohn's research, some sort of merit pay makes more sense in my mind than just getting raises for doing your time. The real problem is finding a fair way to measure merit. |