Annotating the News 11/1/13
I’ve been away, so education periodicals have been stacking up on my desk, and on a balmy Friday night I am multitasking as I watch the USC-Oregon State game (Holy Cow! They won. Fight ON!) K12 Inc. saw its stock price tank from a high of $37.85 to $17.60 after criticism by hedge fund manager […]
A Cautionary Story About Merit Pay
In a just published piece on the PACE blog, I talk about the unintended consequences of paying teachers based on student results. In the long run, actually much more quickly than one might think, Talent will organize to insure its economic success. The blog piece retells the story of how baseball players became superstars with […]