However it soon became the standard of merit pay for teachers.

The money could also be used to reward good teachers with merit pay.

Wasted time and money in the administration of the merit pay plans.

And he speaks generally of giving merit pay to teachers based on student performance.

Merit pay based on student scores has been tried for centuries with poor results.

You know, it sounds good and everybody tells me: merit pay.

Another way to improve our public schools is to introduce merit pay for teachers.

"The question is whether or not the union will be an obstacle to putting in place a merit pay program."

Some administrators even used them to award merit pay to teachers.

Then, unless they bring up an issue such as merit pay, the conversation stops.

Individual merit pay, tied to some form of performance review, is used by many organisations.

Some commissions have urged a new system of merit pay.

He said using merit pay would work especially well in the city's schools by rewarding excellent teachers.

But only 27 percent said that merit pay should be awarded to individual teachers based on their students' test scores.

Last year it issued an influential study of merit pay plans.

"This is an unexpected outcome of the merit pay system."

The money saved will be used to hire a few more teachers and institute merit pay.

Merit pay programs can also alleviate the problem of teacher retention.

He supports merit pay for teachers, along with firing them if they don't meet certain standards.

They state that "a merit pay regime need not pit teachers in a given school against each other to get results".

Merit pay is the idea that good teachers should be rewarded with bonuses.

But the new merit pay increases do not mean that worker cuts are over.

Studies in Colorado and elsewhere suggest that merit pay would raise the quality of education.

In the civil service merit pay has been extended to cover all grades from April 1990.

In retrospect, the rise and fall of merit pay were probably inevitable.