Blog pimp posts are basically vanity posts with ad income.
Posted on 03/08/2011 7:55:22 AM PST by MichCapCon
At Oscoda Area Schools, parental attendance at parent-teacher conferences has skyrocketed. Teachers are also having fewer absences and missing fewer professional development days. The success is being credited to a merit pay system that the school implemented two years ago to try to get teachers to reach performance goals.
Oscoda Area Schools, located in northeast Michigan about 100 miles north of Bay City, has about 1,500 students.
The district awards performance points to each of its 82-plus teachers if they reach goals like reducing teacher absences and getting higher attendance at parent-teacher conferences. Those points are used to dole out cash awards to the teachers from a pool of $25,000.
Oscoda Superintendent Christine Beardsley said that if every teacher hit every benchmark, they’d each take in $294.12.
“We are seeing that it is not about the money,” Beardsley said. “It's the pat on the back, the public acknowledgment.”
According to the school figures, the district saved $41,100 in 2009-10 by not having to pay substitute teachers. That’s because teachers have missed fewer school days, going from 7.51 absences per teacher in 2007-08 to 7.08 in 2008-09 and 7.47 in 2009-10. Teachers have also reduced the number of absences from professional development days, from a total of 52 absences in 2007-08 to 33 in 2008-09, and then to just 21 in 2009-10.
But the most startling results were found in parental attendance at parent-teacher meetings. In 2007-08, only 38 percent of the high school students were represented at parent-teacher conferences. That number jumped to 89 percent in 2010-11...
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Can anyone on the Florida ping list get this to Governor Scott’s office? :)
The fascists are organizing against his education ideas as we speak!
In all of this, there is not one word about the only improvement which matters--improved learning performance of children!
When the politicians, bureaucrats, unions, teacher training institutions, and various other special interest groups begin to focus on the learning performance of children, instead of the employment conditions of the teachers, then the people who foot the bill for it will know that serious efforts are under way.
One year of BLOG PIMPING. Wow, your history on FR is astounding. You only post to your own site.
That is quite a record there, dude.
Blog pimp posts are basically vanity posts with ad income.
No comments, just pimp posts:
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You're a blog pimp's blog pimp, that's for sure.
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So they are saying this is a success? They saw no change at all!
If you tell people that your MySpace page is chock full of porn you might get more hits.
Hell, for all I know it is because I never click on a blog pimp’s MySpace nightmare of ads.
You weren’t supposed to notice that....
And excerpt it?
Linking it back to a Word document on my hard drive?
LOL! I ain’t darin’ ya! I know you’ll do it. ;-)
Go for it.
Stick some ads on the document too.
And a virus or three.
gunner, you’re a rabble rouser. ;-)
Allegra, if you’re going to do it anyway, I have a few ads I’d like you to include. Guaranteed to trap and hold all who click on your links.
Whilst leaving some spyware and a virus or two?
I mean, I want to make this worth my while.
It's not just about the money.
Well, I was going to charge extra for all that stuff, but it’s negotiable. Like my integrity.
Do I have permission to send your awesome blog web address to my e-mail chain?
Why stop at three?
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