Performance Incentives
Their Growing Impact on American K-12 Education
1st Edition
Published on 1. December 2009
336 pages
978-0-8157-0195-8 (ISBN)
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.
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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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN-13
978-0-8157-0195-8 (9780815701958)
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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).
Content
- Front Cover
- Copyright Information
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Rethinking Teacher Compensation Policies: Why Now, Why Again?
- Part One: Perspectives on Teacher Compensation Reform
- The Politics of Teacher Pay Reform
- A Legal Perspective on Teacher Compensation Reform
- A Market-Based Perspective on Teacher Compensation Reform
- The Influence of Scholarship and Experience in Other Fields on Teacher Compensation Reform
- Part Two: Incentive System Design and Measurement
- Turning Student Test Scores into Teacher Compensation Systems
- Designing Incentive Systems for Schools
- The Performance of Highly Effective Teachers in Different School Environments
- Teacher-Designed Performance-Pay Plans in Texas
- Informing Teacher Incentive Policies
- Teacher Salary Bonuses in North Carolina
- Teacher Effectiveness, Mobility, and Attrition in Florida
- Student Outcomes and Teacher Productivity and Perceptions in Arkansas
- Teacher Incentives in the Developing World
- Contributors
- Index
- Back Cover
