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The National Education Association (NEA) adamantly opposes some forms of merit pay. In June 2003, NEA President Reg Weaver said: Teachers understand that politically motivated panaceas such as merit pay and eliminating tenure do nothing to improve teacher quality.
However, this definition has been challenged by the Gettier problem which suggests that justified true belief does not provide a complete picture of knowledge. Bias in education A real or perceived bias in the educational system. Bilingual education Has multiple definitions: education where two distinct languages are used for general teaching;
In Catholic theology, merit is a property of a good work which entitles the doer to receive a reward: it is a salutary act (i.e., "Human action that is performed under the influence of grace and that positively leads a person to a heavenly destiny") [4] to which God, in whose service the work is done, in consequence of his infallible promise may give a reward (prœmium, merces).
The follow articles comprise the glossary of education-related terms: Glossary of education terms (A–C) Glossary of education terms (D–F) Glossary of education terms (G–L) Glossary of education terms (M–O) Glossary of education terms (P–R) Glossary of education terms (S) Glossary of education terms (T–Z)
Definitions of education try to determine the essential features of education. Many general characteristics have been ascribed to education. However, there are several disagreements concerning its exact definition and a great variety of definitions have been proposed by theorists belonging to diverse fields.
Prospective officials could come from a rural background and government positions were not restricted to the nobility. Rank was determined by merit, through the civil service examinations, and education became the key for social mobility. [2] After the fall of the Han Dynasty, the nine-rank system was established during the Three Kingdoms ...
A merit good can be defined as a good which would be under-consumed (and under-produced) by a free market economy, due to two main reasons: When consumed, a merit good creates positive externalities (an externality being a third party/spill-over effect of the consumption or production of the good/service). This means that there is a divergence ...
Google Dictionary is an online dictionary service of Google that can be accessed with the "define" operator and other similar phrases [note 1] in Google Search. [2] It is also available in Google Translate and as a Google Chrome extension. The dictionary content is licensed from Oxford University Press's Oxford Languages. [3]