Wow

I'm unfortunately just beginning to pay the appropriate amount of attention to education reform, so I will leave the commentary to the experts. I'm linking to this post without comment. Eduwonk writes

Here’s a proposed bill in Maine:

“A salary of a teacher may not be based upon the measurable performance or productivity of the teacher or a student of the teacher.”

Gosh, why would anyone be reticent about investing a lot of public money in a system like that? Now I don’t know anyone who thinks a teacher’s entire salary should be based on outcomes, but some how about some component? A little? A tiny bit? None? Seriously?