Performance Incentives: Their Growing Impact on American K-12 Education

Performance Incentives: Their Growing Impact on American K-12 Education
ISBN-10
0815701950
ISBN-13
9780815701958
Category
Education
Pages
336
Language
English
Published
2009-12-01
Publisher
Brookings Institution Press
Author
Matthew G. Springer

Description

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 promising—yet still controversial—policy 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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