I caught this article in the NYTimes today. It reports on an interesting plan to incentivize teachers by tying classroom performance to merit pay. Many oppose it, including unions. What's wrong with incentivizing teachers? Why not encourage them, especially those who think out of the box or care more than others, but feel weighed down by the ...

In many public agenda-setting and policy passing spaces in every level of government, elected officials and decision makers (community leaders, private sector interest groups, etc.) will try to introduce a policy that requires the public to shift their sense of societal norm.  When the government concludes that certain issues are an imminent ...