In response to “Teacher-Pay Experiments Mounting Amid Debate” (Oct. 3, 2007): To pay teachers more for their students’ higher test scores is to eliminate their role as educators and make them old-time ...

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“I teach for free,” one of my colleagues used to say whenever the subject of faculty compensation arose. “They pay me to grade papers.” I thought it was quite an original comment until I heard faculty ...

It’s hardly a surprise that corporate leaders have spent more than a century trying to remake schools in their own companies’ images so that they become more competitive, efficient, and productive. Of ...