Houston Schools New Teacher Merit Pay Program Will It Help or Hinder?
Measurement of student achievement through rigorous statewide testing has been a standard in Texas for many years. Houston schools implemented its first merit pay program for teachers in the year 2000.
Houston Schools believe the old program had too low incentives and unanimously passed the new model in January, making it the largest merit pay program in the nation. Officials believe the new program ties teacher rewards more closely to student improvement and to individual teacher efforts. Though no research has been done on the impact of such programs on improved student achievement, other programs have been tried in New York, Denver and Kentucky with varying success.
Houston business leaders, who have a stake in graduating future employees who are high achievers, support the new Houston schools $14.5 million program.
Houston schools teacher incentives are based on three components:
-> The first component is based upon the amount of improvement of a schools overall test scores, as compared with scores of 40 other schools across the state with similar demographics; To view and download this full PLR article, you must be logged in. Registration is completely free. Once you create your account, you will be able to browse, search & downlod from our PLR articles database of over "1,57,897+" on 1,000's of niches and 200+ categories without paying a penny. Click here to signup...
