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I seldom agree with anything Bob says, but I think he has a point here. However, there is a solution to it that doesn't just give a principle the power to set teachers' salaries, and thus enable him or her to curry favor with certain teachers, or vice versa.
However, one of the frustrations I had during my brief stint teaching at
the high school level was that there was no reward for excellence (not
that I personally deserved it). The teachers who were known for their
skills and adaptability got exactly the same pay raises as those who
should have been fired years ago. This is where I think NCLB is weak.
The carrot and stick are applied to the schools, not the teachers. There
is little a "manager" can do if the individual teachers are shielded
from accountability by a strong union presence that prohibits merit pay.