Word: bonus
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Keefe and Walsh certainly have a good feel for each other (note: bonus points were given for public groping), though there is potential for confusion when trying to find one another in the library during midterms. There are those who would say that Coffees and Teas shouldn’t mix, but with Diet Coke and Jake Gyllenhaal on their side, these love-birds will make it through the Cambridge winter before heading to a sunny Spring Break...
...call largely on the basis of a single year's test results-a method experts dismiss as unreliable. In Florida, for instance, one of Governor Jeb Bush's final initiatives before he left office in January 2007 was to push through a merit-pay program that offered a 5% bonus to teachers in the top 25% in each participating district, with selection based at least 50% on how much their students' test scores jumped from one year to the next. Houston had a similar initiative, though without...
...judged by how students did on a single test on a single day. They objected to the lack of clarity about how teachers of subjects not tested by the state would be assessed. And they railed against a system that pitted one colleague against another in a competition for bonuses. To make matters worse, there were gruesome glitches. In Houston, a newspaper website identified which teachers got bonuses. Later, 99 employees were asked to return about $74,000 in bonus checks issued by mistake. In Florida, one county ran short of bonus funds while another had an embarrassing discrepancy between...
...above and beyond." Betz didn't expect performance pay to change anything about how she does her job but says it has made her even more driven. "Now I refuse to let kids fail," she says. "I'm going to bulldoze whatever the problem is and solve it." The bonus money is simply a just reward. "I'm not a money grubber. Most teachers aren't. But people in other professions get raises," she says. "Why shouldn...
...With countless romantic hideaways both on campus and off, Mellor says, the greater challenge is finding someone to enjoy them with. “I like making out with someone I really care about,” Mellor says, “and it’s an added bonus to make out somewhere that’s really cool.” And though couples might swarm to exotic spots for their Valentine’s day tonsil-hockey, Mellor adds some of the best spots are close to home. “A couch...