(full disclosure: California Teacher's Association has hired me to do online outreach on NCLB)
There are a lot of things wrong with NCLB, so why are George Miller and Nancy Pelosi insisting on adding new problems. More specifically, adding a federal merit pay program for teachers. First of all, studies have shown that merit pay just does not work. It leads to divisiveness in the teaching ranks, makes hiring more difficult and tends to go to teachers in affluent school districts, despite promises to the contrary. Just about every school that implements merit pay repeals it down the road.