July 26, 2010 at 6:20 am
#699875
Nils2
Participant
maplesyrup:
Merit pay has a ton of problems. Debatepedia does an adequate job of covering many of them:
http://debatepedia.idebate.org/en/index.php/Debate:_Merit_pay_for_teachers
I believe that many of these shortfalls could be alleviated (primary by designing the correct “yardstick”), and that the benefits of merit pay would outweigh the problems that are intrinsic to it.