Performance Incentives : Their Growing Impact on American K-12 Education
Language: English
Published by Brookings Institution Press, 2009
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- Title
- Performance Incentives : Their Growing Impact on American K-12 Education
- Publisher
- Brookings Institution Press
- Publication year
- 2009
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0815780796
- ISBN 13
- 9780815780793
- Item weight
- 1.122 pounds
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The concept of pay for performance for public school teachers is growing in popularity and use, and it has resurged to once again occupy a central role in education policy. Performance Incentives: Their Growing Impact on American K-12 Education offers the most up-to-date and complete analysis of this promisingyet still controversialpolicy innovation.
Performance Incentives brings together an interdisciplinary team of experts, providing an unprecedented discussion and analysis of the pay-for-performance debate by
Identifying the potential strengths and weaknesses of tying pay to student outcomes;
Comparing different strategies for measuring teacher accomplishments;
Addressing key conceptual and implemen - tation issues;
Describing what teachers themselves think of merit pay;
Examining recent examples in Arkansas, Florida, North Carolina, and Texas;
Studying the overall impact on student achievement.
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About the Author
Matthew G. Springer is the director of the National Center on Performance Incentives and an assistant professor of public policy at Vanderbilt University's Peabody College. He is a coauthor of Modern Education Finance and Policy (2007) and a coeditor of Charter School Outcomes (2007) and Handbook of Research on School Choice (2009).
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