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> Give teachers a bonus for each student that achieves at grade level. Let the teachers figure out how to do it. As someone has already pointed out to you, wha
by ChainOfFools 4y ago
> Give teachers a bonus for each student that achieves at grade level. Let the teachers figure out how to do it.
As someone has already pointed out to you, what the teachers will figure out how to do is game the system in order to produce the appearance of success. Not all of them, not even perhaps a substantial majority. But enough of them will do so that the system becomes warped around reinforcing their behavior rather than the behavior the incentive is supposed to optimize for. You're a crypto nut; surely you have heard of gresham's law before.
- WalterBright 4y ago> what the teachers will figure out how to do is game the system in order to produce the appearance of success. They will certainly try. However, bonus systems exist all over the place in the free market, and they work. The current system is quite thoroughly gamed in the teachers' favor by the unions.
- tstrimple 4y agoAnd the free market is full of countless examples of those perverse incentives leading to perverse outcomes.
- WalterBright 4y agoThe computer you're using is the result of the free market.