Awards for Notable Service
Abstract
Awards for Notable Service SAGE Publications, Inc.1957DOI: 10.1177/002248715700800212 Harold B. Gores Newton, Massachusetts i T MAY be well to state at the outset what Newton's Notable Service Plan is not. It is NOT: (1) a plan recently put into effect whose provisions will not be in full force for several more years, but which is already being hailed as a "suc- cess" ; (2) a plan requiring systematic and organized comparative ratings of teachers by committees, panels, or hired experts; (3) a plan which is practically indistinguishable from a basic salary schedule in that almsot everybody who is going to get a raise anyway gets it under the guise of being "meritorious"; and (4) a plan attended by publicity for the recipient and notoriety for the non-recipient. It is, instead, a plan which (1) has been in force without furor or tension for a decade in a school system of 700 teachers; (2) awards extra money not on the basis of direct incentive but after the fact of notable achievement; (3) awards $150 as a special continuing increment to teachers deemed to be serving not just successfully, but notably; (4) makes teachers eligible for an additional award of