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Practicing evidence-based management isn't easy given our various human flaws.  But we sure could save a lot of money, a lot of heartache, and make people's lives a lot better if we all tried a lot harder to do it.  There are plenty of outcomes in life that are impossible to predict.  Unfortunately, what happened in New York was completely predictable, even if people with blind faith in linking test scores to financial rewards for schools and teachers remain unwilling to believe this well-established truth now. 

Why are we so against reading the research and applying it? Truth is that this is completely absurd - merit pay does not work in education. The commodity we work with as educators is human and by all rights unpredictable. Measuring the students annually on a standards based assessment is but one indicator of that students performance. This is such a shame - wasted tax payer dollars and lots of disappointment.

Looks like corporate creep to me...

Yep.....was wondering how this would eventually impact ADM and how it is calculated - WOW!