Here’s my column from today’s paper, on why the government can’t tell who the good teachers are.
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25 May | 21:25 | Lisa
This one is generating some interesting dialogue with my Republican (GASP!!!!!), running for office in SF (GASP, GASP!!!!!) boyfriend(?)
He likes your column.
And I do too ... except I wonder how the principal who just interviewed me for a journalism job would react at bonus time when my students wrote stories that didn't conform to her demands -- MUST NOT SHOW SCHOOL IN NEGATIVE LIGHT!!!!
I could be the world's greatest journalism teacher helping my students become solid investigative reporters, but I'd not win one dollar in merit pay, would I?
Still, I am certainly open to the idea of differentiated pay beyond the ridiculous step system.
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Joshua Benton is the director of the Nieman Digital Journalism Project at Harvard University, among other things. Before that, he was a staff writer and columnist for The Dallas Morning News. (More.)
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