[SoftTalker]

I think that could work but you would need to give teachers more control over the discipline and syllabus in their classrooms.

If you can't maintain order and can't adapt your teaching to meet the needs of your students, there's limits to what can be achieved.

[WalterBright]

Of course there are limits on what can be achieved. But we won't know until we try. It's hard to be worse than the current system of no incentive whatsoever.

[tremon]

It's hard to be worse than the current system

This is hardly ever true, for any kind of system.

[bandrami]

Where did you get the idea that US public schools are in some kind of crisis? They're doing pretty well, like they always have, but people are remarkably willing to simply accept claims (often by parties with financial interests in making them) that they aren't.

[WalterBright]

> Where did you get the idea that US public schools are in some kind of crisis?

Declining achievement levels, the perfectly horrible results in inner city schools, and the disparities between different racial groups.

[bandrami]

> Declining achievement levels

Nope. Do the homework here.

> the perfectly horrible results in inner city schools

Another claim remarkably free of any data

> the disparities between different racial groups.

African American kids today score better than white kids 30 years ago did.