Performance Pay

That Huge Bonus May Actually Make You Screw Up

Posted 05.10.2012

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Don't choke! It's advice we’ve all heard before, but it’s much easier said than done, according to a new study. After a certain threshold, ...

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Joy Resmovits

What's In A Resolution: NEA's Van Roekel Says Language Shift Does Not Signal Policy Change

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 09.06.2011

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When the National Education Association held its membership conference over Independence Day weekend, it made headlines for endorsing Barack Obama ear...

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New Illinois Law: Education Reform or Mere Distraction?

Julie Woestehoff | Posted 08.15.2011

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Julie Woestehoff

From the way Illinois politicians have been preening the past couple of days, you'd think they had cured cancer. Nope, it's what they and the media have been relentlessly calling a "historic" new education reform law.

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Charlotte Students: Too Much Testing!

Posted 07.31.2011

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Many stakeholders, from experts to administrators, have opined on the future of America’s schools. But as more and more states pass laws tying teach...

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The Need for a Performance Right

Ann Chaitovitz | Posted 05.25.2011

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Ann Chaitovitz

Because we do not have a performance right, performers, labels, and our economy) lose more than 100M dollars annually that is collected overseas for the broadcasts of U.S. recordings.

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"Reinvest, Don't Disinvest" in Education: Randi Weingarten Takes the National Stage

Dan Brown | Posted 05.25.2011

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Dan Brown

Weingarten's speech was an impassioned call to spare the hatchet -- or scalpel -- in federal funding for education.

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