Ideas In Action with Jim Glassman: Public Education: Is Pay For Performance The Answer?

President Obama has put merit pay for teachers on a long list of educational reforms he'd like to enact. His $4.3 billion dollar "Race to the Top" initiative includes encouragement for states to experiment with teachers' compensation. But who gets rewarded - and how do we measure success?

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The Great Brain Race It's not just American business that has gone global. American universities have, too. In response to the worldwide demand for American-style higher education, American universities have expanded into countries across the globe - opening branches from Cairo to Canberra. What does this mean for the equality of education available to students abroad, and in America? And what effect will spreading American-style education have on a workforce becoming increasingly mobile?	26:46	11/24/2010
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American Expertise: Could America's Know-How Be Our Strongest Export? W. Michael Cox is a professor at the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University and a leading economist and analyst of the American economy. America ranks number one in the sale of services such as finance, management, education and transportation to a world hungry for American know-how. Cox argues the key to future American economic growth is for companies to sell their services in developing markets abroad.	28:51	12/30/2010
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Public Education: Is Pay For Performance The Answer? President Obama has put merit pay for teachers on a long list of educational reforms he'd like to enact. His $4.3 billion dollar "Race to the Top" initiative includes encouragement for states to experiment with teachers' compensation. But who gets rewarded - and how do we measure success?	26:50	01/27/2011

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