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Six reasons why ‘value-added’ and merit pay aren’t fair — in three minutes

By Valerie Strauss, Published: October 6, 2012 at 11:00 amE-mail the writer

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Cognitive scientist Daniel Willingham from the University of Virginia gets to the heart of the matter:

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