Performance Incentives: Their Growing Impact on American K-12 Education by Springer, Matthew G.

Performance Incentives: Their Growing Impact on American K-12 Education (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780815780793)

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Performance Incentives: Their Growing Impact on American K-12 Education by Springer, Matthew G.

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

$31.00
Performance Incentives: Their Growing Impact on American K-12 Education by Springer, Matthew G.

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

$31.00
Format: Paperback
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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 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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Author: Matthew G. Springer
ISBN-10: 0815780796
ISBN-13: 9780815780793
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Language: English
Published: 09/16/2009
Pages: 346
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2010 pg. 218
By Matthew G. Springer
By Matthew G. Springer
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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).

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