On Google’s Knol site, Heritage senior policy analyst Dan Lips and Joydeep Roy, Lawrence Mishel and Sean Corcoran from the Econimc Policy Institute and New York University are debating whether there is a place for performance-based teacher compensation in our public school system. Roy, Lawrence and Mishel argue that it’s difficult to measure a teacher’s role in the outcomes, standardized tests represent only a small fraction of what students know, and that few agree on what the output of education should be. Lips replies: First, policymakers should provide incentives for teachers that …
