Question 1: Please respond to each of the following:

1. Is merit pay for teachers a good idea? What are the positive and negative sides of the issue?

2. What are the pros and cons of charter schools? What does the research say about their effectiveness?

3. Think about everything that you have learned about school finance during the past few weeks:

• What is the most interesting concept you learned?
• What was the most surprising thing you learned?
• How will what you have learned in this course help in your future career?

Question 2: Think about everything that you have learned about educational research during the past three weeks:

• What is your research topic? Why did you pick this topic?
• What new information did you learn about this topic when doing the literature review?
• What more would you like to learn about this topic? How does your methodology enable you to do this?
• What is an action research project you would like to conduct at your school next year?