Word: meritably
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...Johns at the top, closely followed by Christo, whose island-fringing project in Miami's Biscayne Bay-as Japanese as a Monet, blooms of pink on the still water-caused great excitement on the other side of the Pacific. It is possible to find current work of real merit, like the exquisite objects of washi (handmade paper) with tones and twigs embedded in them, by the Kyoto artist Shoichi Ida. Yet the resignation with which artists accept their secondary role is almost as troubling as its opposite, the gross commercial ambitions of the American art world...
...empty coffers. This spring a report by the National Commission on Excellence in Education found that teacher training programs needed substantial improvement and that too few top students are attracted to the profession. While urging that all salaries be raised, the commission proposed that superior teachers be rewarded with merit increases, a concept traditionally opposed by both unions on the ground that such bonuses might be awarded unfairly...
...both conventions the biggest and most politically sensitive issue was merit pay, a concept that is getting increased attention from politicians, the public and some key educators, including Anthony Alvarado, the newly appointed chancellor of New York City's schools. The A.F.T. has been quietly debating the pros and cons of merit pay for several months, realizing that it could not just flatly reject the concept in today's charged atmosphere. As a result, Reagan complimented the A.F.T. for "its fair and open-minded approach to other potential means of encouraging good teaching and good teachers." Another speaker...
...N.E.A., by contrast, has until recently been obdurately opposed even to considering merit pay. Outgoing Executive Director Terry Herndon vowed to fight the master-teacher concept in Tennessee and anywhere else that it is tried. Supporting this determination, some N.E.A. delegates at the convention wore badges that said: TRY MERIT PAY IN THE WHITE HOUSE...
...leadership at the N.E.A. seems to be willing to consider ways of working out a fair merit-pay plan. Mary Hatwood Futrell, the president-elect, has declared that the union is still "tough on merit pay, but not so tough that we're not willing to open discussion." Don Cameron, who succeeds Herndon as executive director, has called on the N.E.A. "to review many longstanding policies." Cameron has also declared, "Let us state that there are some incompetent teachers in America's classrooms." At the convention, the N.E.A. delegates voted to set up a task force, headed...