s – Fox in the Library

A New Direction

I’m hoping that this school year will allow me some time to take this blog in a new direction. In the months to come, my goal is to talk about what is going on in my library, ideas I’ve had to make improvements, and how things actually got done from a realistic (read: rose-colored-glasses-free) pointContinue reading “A New Direction”

In response to many posted opinions about merit pay for teachers

I can understand how, to the general public, it makes sense to associate teacher salaries and positions with their students’ achievement. When you look at statistics on paper and see that, hypothetically, there are 27 teachers in one district whose students’ test scores are consistently low, then they should be replaced. The problem is this:Continue reading “In response to many posted opinions about merit pay for teachers”