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"Merit Pay Is An Insult"

Ronald Bailey | 4.21.2009 8:13 AM

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Below is a quotation from an NPR teaser for an All Things Considered segment later today on the crumbling public schools of Detroit: 

"I won't even entertain merit pay because merit pay is an insult."

— Detroit teacher & union member

Sure, it's not in context, but still…. 

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Ronald Bailey is science correspondent at Reason.

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