Word: meritable
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...help improve student achievement as much and as quickly as possible. Most notably, Klein has incorporated a pay-for-performance model that rewards schools for increased student achievement. While this incentive-based plan represents a step in the right direction, more must be done in the way of individual merit pay for teachers to truly improve teaching in every classroom. Under Klein’s model, rather than appropriate bonus pay to individual teachers, schools that have made progress on their report cards over the last year will receive lump sums of money to distribute however they...
...While you should be at every home game this season, two in particular merit “can’t miss” status: Friday night’s game against Holy Cross (the second-ever contest under the lights at Harvard Stadium) and, of course, The Game...
...elaborate on why "no-comment" is a poor response? Not commenting on a rumor tends to raise the question, "Why is the target not responding to this rumor?" Hearers alternately wonder if there is some merit to the rumor, or if the target of the rumor has something to hide. The net result is that uncertainty increases. In experiments, my colleague, Prashant Bordia, and I have found that the no-comment condition results in an increased sense of uncertainty and gives credence to the notion that the [target of the rumor] is attempting to cover something...
...road map for surviving an economic downturn. Don't sit there smugly and assume that your sterling credentials will save you, says the author bluntly: "Got a swanky Ivy League degree? How nice. Here's the cold hard truth: if you don't click with your boss, all that merit and pedigree won't get you anywhere when your job is on the line...
...Dear exalted foreign guests, they seemed to say, did you know that we Chinese have 5,000 years of history and that we invented paper and movable type and gunpowder? The unease manifested itself in sartorial diktats, too. Lest visitors think that China was somehow not sophisticated enough to merit hosting the world's premier sporting spectacle, local residents were admonished not to wear more than three contrasting hues at the same time. At a time of national glory, it just wouldn't do to have colors clash...