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...program that awards $99 million a year in grants to districts that link teacher compensation to raising student test scores. Merit pay has also become part of the debate in Congress over how to improve the 2001 No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), triggering an outcry from teachers' unions, which oppose federal intrusion into how teachers get paid and evaluated. The subject is a touchy one for the Democrats, who count on support from the powerful teachers' unions. Last summer, Barack Obama endorsed merit pay at a meeting of the National Education Association, the nation's largest teachers' union...
...turnover: offer better pay for better performance. The challenge is deciding who deserves the extra cash. Merit-pay movements in the 1920s, '50s and '80s stumbled over just that question, as the perception grew that bonuses were awarded to principals' pets. Charges of favoritism, along with unreliable funding and union opposition, sank such experiments...
...antibiotic age, then, containing plague requires monitoring more than human cases, says Nils Christian Stenseth, head of the Center for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis in Oslo, and lead author of the PLoS Medicine paper. Working with nearly 50 years of animal, human and bacteriological statistics from the former Soviet Union, his team found that human plague in Kazakhstan occurs only when the local gerbil population reaches a certain threshold in winter. Warmer winters mean more gerbils. That, says Stenseth, suggests plague's "re-emergence might have a climate component...
...temperature rose last night as the Harvard College Democrats and the Harvard Republican Club clashed in a debate over the future of American environmental policy that was hosted by the Harvard Political Union...
...competing at the highest level of women’s hockey. It’s made easier by the fact that I play on a great team.” The defenseman, who had also scored a goal in the previous night’s 4-0 win over Union, was alerted of the impending milestone before the contest against RPI. As someone who is more comfortable speaking of her team’s success than focusing on her own individual accomplishments, it was a relief to Cahow to reach the 100 point mark by the end of the first...