Relating teacher pay to changes in learning makes as much sense as paying doctors an incentive bonus that is linked to the health of their patients. Heaven forbid that anybody skews the average by refusing the very sick, rejecting those prone to self harm or heal the body whilst harming the mind ( Read more... )

I still have no idea who penned the original source of the following article although from the language I suspect it sources from the States where the debate about performance pay is currently raging. After a search about the traps, I notice it has already done the rounds of the QSITE and Edulist English mailing lists. Here it is.

( toothless grin - more )