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Performance pay at schools Obama, Duncan picked for their children?
- 04-13-2011
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Guest blog by Bill Schechter/Washington Post
Anyone who is a parent knows how determined, even desperate, we can be to do the best by our children, particularly in the areas of health care or education. We want them to have every opportunity to grow into healthy, happy, and thoughtful people. We hope and pray for their success. Indeed, the Boston Globe recently ran a series spotlighting the enormous anxiety experienced by Boston parents as they awaited news of their young children’s school placements. President Obama and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan are also parents who naturally want the best for their kids. Obama enrolled his two children at Sidwell Friends, a private Quaker school in Washington, D.C., and Duncan enrolled his two children in the Arlington, Va., public schools, respectively. Do these excellent schools evaluate or pay teachers on the basis of student standardized test scores? This question is important because the issue of “pay for performance” models of teacher evaluation now dominates the intense debate over education reform. Duncan has voiced his support for performance-based merit pay. (more...)
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