Race to the Top is comprised of many avenues toward funding education, but the most controversial, so far, is its merit pay component. RTTT links teacher salaries and tenure to improvement in student standardized test scores. Why on earth would...
Elizabeth Randall is a nationally and regionally published writer, most recently in: Salon, Education Week, Public School Montessorian, The Miami Herald, The Orlando Sentinel, Folio Weekly, Orlando Weekly, The Seminole Chronicle and Suite 101. She is also a 35 year Florida certified teacher, a college instructor,and a former corporate trainer and education consultant for the sate of Florida and Puerto Rico. She ran for school board inSeminole County in 2006, lost, and plans to run again in 2010. Presently, she teaches 11th grade English at a local high school and lives in Lake Mary with her husband and her teenage daughter.
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