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...result is that presidential candidates of all stripes are waving the educational banner in the current campaign--vigorously debating such issues as "merit pay" for teachers, throwing out plans for funneling more money into educational programs, and generally trying to out-promise each other over what they plan to do to get the nation's schools back on track...
...other move that is gaining widespread bipartisan support is the idea of "merit pay," or encouraging good teachers by dangling before them possible salary increases. Reagan and several of the Democratic eight have supported the proposal in general, though no one has proposed anything specific...
Louis's final contention on reverse discrimination is that "'merit' is usually trumpeted as the supreme good which affirmative action undermines, while in reality, anyone can name a thousand and one instances in which factors other than merit were taken into account in, for example, getting a job." First of all, the fact that many employers often consider criteria unrelated to the performance of the job is no invitation to require the addition of racial status to that list. Second, what is especially odious about reverse discrimination is not that it is just another example of an employer considering "factors...
Mansfield: Yes, indeed, I would make a distinction between admissions and hiring. I would make a distinction between those situations where merit is expected and required, and a situation where a community must be filled and sustained. An undergraduate body is a kind of community. If it doesn't have a substantial proportion of Blacks and women, then it is defective as a community. One could easily fill up places at Harvard with 100 people with the highest SAT scores. We've never done that. We didn't do that before affirmative action, and we're not going...
...traditionalist in a rootless industry, a believer in long-term growth in a market hooked on quick profit and instant gratification, a technological skeptic among scientific true believers. Morgan had run the Philip Morris tobacco-marketing division, whose products included such fast-rising brands as Virginia Slims and Merit, with an almost ostentatious lack of computers. He preferred writing meticulous longhand notes on legal pads to punching numbers into a machine...