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The Peril and Promise of Performance Pay: Making Education Compensation Workreviewed by Warren Hodge - January 11, 2010 Title: The Peril and Promise of Performance Pay: Making Education Compensation Work Author(s): Donald B. Gratz Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham ISBN: 1607090112, Pages: 284, Year: 2009 Search for book at Amazon.com Christopher Hedges, in his recent book Empire of Illusion (2009), argues that our society is being threatened by a deluge of propaganda, untruths, and pseudo eventscultural distractions that create their own realities. For these distractions, he blames the media, pop culture, corporate America, and politicians, and he posits that as we move from a print-based society to a post-literate society, we will lose the ability to distinguish between illusion and reality and come to confuse propaganda with ideology, brands with real experiences, and pseudo events for reality. Ultimately, we will be unable to make informed decisionswhich could be more perilous than promising.
More so than any other social institution, schools are charged with propagating literacy and numeracy from generation to generation. But how are we best to enhance and maintain successful transmissionparticularly of the ability to think and make decisions? In The Peril and Promise of Performance Pay: Making Education... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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- Warren Hodge
University of North Florida E-mail Author WARREN HODGE is an associate professor of educational leadership at the University of North Florida where he teaches graduate education courses, among them, leadership development and assessment, education research, and education law. His research interests include transformational leadership and its impact on school reform, and the nexus between law, ethics, and leadership behavior.
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