Rewards and Reform: Creating Educational Incentives That Work (Jossey Bass Higher & Adult Education Series) - Hardcover

Fuhrman, Susan H.; O'Day, Jennifer A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0787902373 ISBN 13: 9780787902377

Publisher: Jossey-Bass, 1996

Synopsis

Noted experts offer a comprehensive view of student, teacher, managerial, and organizational incentives and show how they are linked to school reform goals.

About this title

About the Author

SUSAN H. FUHRMAN is dean of the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania and a director of the Consortium for Policy Research in Education.

JENNIFER A. O'DAY is associate director of the Pew Forum on Education Reform.

From the Back Cover

"Accomplishing significant and meaningful change in K-12 education will require major changes in the incentives that motivate people throughout the system. This book provides a broad and thoughtful set of perspectives on the nature of existing incentives and how they need to be changed. It is an important book for anyone interested in education reform."
—Helen Ladd, professor of public policy studies and economics, Duke University

Rewards and Reform offers a comprehensive view of student, teacher, managerial, and organizational incentives and shows how they are linked to school reform goals. Noted experts in education policy, pratice, and research, as well as respected thinkers and practitioners from the public and private sectors, consider a variety of incentive approaches.

From the Inside Flap

Rewards and Reform offers a comprehensive view of student, teacher, managerial, and organizational incentives and shows how they are linked to school reform goals. Noted experts in education policy, practice, and research, as well as respected thinkers and practitioners from the public and private sectors, consider a variety of incentive approaches.Drawing from such diverse sources as studies of performance incentives, reforms in Vermont, school structuring in New York City, private sector research on management, and current theories of motivation and organizational development, the book explains the underlying issues surrounding incentives and reform and provides a framework for future research and policy. The book shows, for example, how workplace redesigns could answer teachers' needs for autonomy and participation--and so bolster the professional nature of teaching. It also examines alternative ways of thinking about teacher compensation.

Edition details

• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0787902373
• ISBN 13: 9780787902377
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 394