Many Texas school districts are choosing to create their own incentive pay programs at the local level. Initial studies find improved teacher morale, higher student test scores, higher state accountability rankings, and less teacher turnover as a result of Texas’ pay-for-performance programs.
The Last, Best Hope: A New Texas University Looks to Restore Genuine Higher Education
As someone who has spent most of his life working in American universities, my subsequent writing about it in these pages has been for the most part negative. And not without reason: My on-campus experience, coupled with my research, has led me to agree with the assertion that constitutes the subtitle of Allan Bloom’s “The...