Education Next – Jay P. Greene
” . . . Stuart Buck and I would like to introduce to the policy lexicon the term MPINO — Merit Pay in Name Only. Few merit pay programs for teachers manage to overcome union-fueled political opposition to be adopted and implemented. We estimate . . . that no more than 3.5% of all districts have anything even remotely resembling merit pay. But even the few programs that aren’t blocked are largely co-opted and diluted so that they are little more than MPINO.”(more)