Outlines five myths used as arguments against teacher merit pay. While teacher preparation, salaries, and evaluation are essential elements of performance pay plans, they should not be isolated from related issues. Includes a sidebar on problems the Fairfax County (Virginia) merit pay plan is encountering with the teacher union. (MD)

Looks at four kinds of job evaluation and examines them in light of the concept of comparable worth that may be adopted by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Provides some guidelines for improving evaluation systems. (IRT)

Intended for persons establishing job development programs for developmentally disabled individuals, this training manual details the structure and procedures of Project PLANTWORK, a 21-month demonstration program which placed approximately 70 workers with developmental disabilities into employment in horticulture industry firms or into…

Presents strategies for improving the effectiveness of advisory committees. All of the suggestions point to the need for more active interaction between decision makers at the highest levels of industry and education. (CT)

Development of a comprehensive, pro-active, value-centered model for reviewing college faculty salaries is described. The model, used at Frostburg State University (Maryland), draws on multiple-regression applications to salary equity issues. Applications of the model in evaluating, redressing, and preventing salary equity problems are presented.…

Methods used to measure college faculty salary compression (i.e., the extent to which new faculty salaries are approaching those of existing faculty at the same or higher rank) are presented. Administrator methods of addressing the issue of salary compression are also discussed, based on a survey of 10 college provosts. (Author/MSE)