{"id":23005,"date":"2023-02-12T18:02:12","date_gmt":"2023-02-12T23:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=23005"},"modified":"2023-02-12T18:02:12","modified_gmt":"2023-02-12T23:02:12","slug":"theres-no-merit-in-merit-pay-plans-for-rewarding-retaining-sc-teachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/theres-no-merit-in-merit-pay-plans-for-rewarding-retaining-sc-teachers\/","title":{"rendered":"There\u2019s no merit in merit pay plans for rewarding, retaining SC teachers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Furman University&#8217;s Paul Thomas, a professor of education, writes an opinion piece in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/opinion\/commentary\/commentary-theres-no-merit-in-merit-pay-plans-for-rewarding-retaining-sc-teachers\/article_d7c6808e-a66c-11ed-9798-af60f38cba49.html\">The Post and Courier<\/a> about merit pay and why it fails education, teachers and students. He notes that two competing facts are in play: &#8220;Teacher pay is important to address and long overdue in the state, but merit pay is an ineffective and even harmful approach to addressing pay and teacher shortages.&#8221; After explaining the downside of merit pay, Thomas writes, &#8220;South Carolina&#8217;s greatest need is for elected officials to directly address poverty: access to health care, stable jobs with strong pay and access to affordable housing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Thomas lays out in-school reforms necessary to help remedy teacher shortages and other woes. The longstanding problem in South Carolina is this, he says: &#8220;High-poverty students struggle to achieve well enough or fast enough compared to their more affluent peers. Those children deserve new solutions, and merit pay is a tired gimmick that will fail children and teachers once again.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Thomas writes a commentary about why merit pay for teachers might be harmful and explains what&#8217;s really needed in South Carolina schools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":23033,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,6,116],"tags":[1864,668,1863,1597],"class_list":["post-23005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-in-the-news","category-the-post-and-courier","tag-merit-pay-for-teachers","tag-poverty","tag-school-reform","tag-teacher-retention"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}