Merit Pay/Pay for Performance

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Thought this excerpt from the July 10 newsletter of the American Federation=20=
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of Teachers (AFT) would be of interest to fellow members of the DEN. =20

Del  Nelson

When "We the people...."
Have been replaced by profits, money,  and greed
It is time to start over!
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"SHANKER INSTITUTE EXAMINES PAY FOR  PERFORMANCE
Pay-for-performance systems=E2=80=94what they are, whether and  under what=20
circumstances they work, and how they do or don't apply to K-12  education=
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subject of a lively June 6 discussion in Washington, D.C.,  sponsored by the=
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Albert Shanker Institute. The event, moderated by Shanker  Institute board m=
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Milt Goldberg, featured Edward Lawler, director of the  Center for Effective=
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Organizations at the University of Southern California's  Marshall School of=
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Business, and Lewis Solmon, president of the Teacher  Advancement Program (T=
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Foundation. Lawler reported that a review of 3,000  studies examining the=20
impact of merit pay systems on work organization found  results that were=20
"overwhelmingly negative."