{"id":334,"date":"2011-01-26T08:33:27","date_gmt":"2011-01-26T15:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/?p=334"},"modified":"2011-03-23T17:18:41","modified_gmt":"2011-03-24T00:18:41","slug":"a-cautionary-story-about-merit-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/?p=334","title":{"rendered":"A Cautionary Story About Merit Pay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a just published piece on the PACE blog, I talk about the unintended consequences of paying teachers based on student results. \u00a0In the long run, actually much more quickly than one might think, Talent will organize to insure its economic success. \u00a0The blog piece retells the story of how baseball players became superstars with outsized paychecks. \u00a0It&#8217;s a long way from teacherdom, and teacher salaries to major league baseball, but the principle holds: if you name something, and say that it is valued, it is likely to have economic consequences. \u00a0I am not at all sure that pipers of economic competitiveness among teachers have figured out the cost of the tune they are playing. \u00a0But some smart union organizer will. \u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stanford.edu\/group\/pace\/cgi-bin\/drupal\/node\/157\" target=\"_blank\">Read the whole piece here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a just published piece on the PACE blog, I talk about the unintended consequences of paying teachers based on student results. \u00a0In the long run, actually much more quickly than one might think, Talent will organize to insure its economic success. \u00a0The blog piece retells the story of how baseball players became superstars with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,6,9,1],"tags":[20,19],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=334"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":403,"href":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions\/403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}