Suggests the use of self-management techniques to improve student performance. Discusses three areas of student involvement: selecting goals or standards, assessing and recording performance, and rewarding oneself when performance reaches specified goal. Sees academic benefits of this method as greater student responsibility, success, and…

Merit pay for teachers is fine in principle, but teachers must have a role in evaluation. The problems that concern merit teaching exit between teacher and principal. It is a question of checks and balances; administrators will play favorites as will teachers. (MLW)

The quality of education in the United States has been seriously damaged by two factors: equality of opportunity equated with the results of education (unless all students perform equally well, the system is judged to be unjust); and societal preoccupation with self-satisfaction and rejection of personal responsibility. (MLW)