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[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by Adder

I'm not against well designe incentive pay. I am against believing that it will make all that much difference and mindful of ty's blogger's point that a poorly designed system can be counterproductive where, as here, it's not always clear that greater effort correlates with greater measured success.

I'm also skeptical about AG's redistribution of teachers as it seems to assume that context doesn't matter. That a teacher does fine in an affluent suburb may not say much about how he/she woul do in an urban setting.

To sum up, I'm not sure teachers are the problem.

And whether or not a system is well-designed, the folks who are going to manage it are public school administrators, who are probably the only people who Penkse would concede are less competent than public school teachers.