Teaching at Risk: A Call to Action (2004), the report of a commission that included business and education executives as well as the president of the American Federation of Teachers, reached which of the following conclusions?
a. "Merit pay for teachers, despite its surface appeal, is simply unacceptable in today's world. . . . . Our teachers deserve better treatment, and we insist that they
receive it.".
b. "In time, acceptable forms of performance-based pay may emerge, but at present we see little evidence of their effectiveness or workability. While we reaffirm our call for more research, we cannot endorse performance-based pay at this time.".
c. "Judgments must be made in every profession of which employees are performing well and which ones are not measuring up. Such determinations are not an exact science, but supervisors are nonetheless expected to use regular evaluations and raises as an incentive to reward performance.".
d. a and b
C
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