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a school system that used a merit pay scale. "It didn’t work. It was dropped,” she reported.
According to Mrs. Quaintance, parents and administrators know who the strong teachers are. Instead of adopting merit pay to improve instruction in county schools, she suggested that more care be given to avoid putting weaker teachers on continuing contracts.
Masterson responded that several school systems had instituted merit plans “with tremendous success,” according to an article in the Wall Street Journal.
(The article referred to by Masterson (in volume CXCI, number 104 of the Journal) notes that the Indian Hill, Ohio school system adopted “goal setting curriculum” with the type of weekly testing referred to be Masterson. According to Leon Lessinger, dean of the college of education at the University of South Carolina and one of the originators of accountability through goal
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