Performance incentives
Subtitle: their growing impact on American K-12 education
By: Matthew G. Springer, editor.
Contributors: Springer, Matthew G.
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780815780809; 9780815780793
Subjects: Teachers -- Salaries, etc. -- United States; Merit pay -- United States; Teachers -- Rating of -- United States
Description: "Offers an analysis of the promise and controversy around teacher pay for performance. Identifies potential strengths and weaknesses of performance-driven compensation policies and addresses key conceptual and implementation issues that have dominated the debate surrounding teacher compensation as an avenue for school reform"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Rethinking teacher compensation policies : why now, why again? / Matthew G. Springer; title: Part One, Perspectives on Teacher Compensation Reform; title: 2. The politics of teacher pay reform / Dan Goldhaber; title: 3. A legal perspective on teacher compensation reform / James E. Ryan; title: 4. A market-based perspective on teacher compensation reform / Michael Podgursky; title: 5. The influence of scholarship and experience in other fields on teacher compensation reform / Richard Rothstein; title: Part Two, Incentive System Design and Measurement; title: 6. Turning student test scores into teacher compensation systems / Daniel F. McCaffrey, Bing Han, and J.R. Lockwood; title: 7. Designing incentive systems for schools / Derek Neal; title: 8. The performance of highly effective teachers in different school environments / William L. Sanders, S. Paul Wright, and Warren E. Langevin; title: 9. Teacher-designed performance-pay plans in Texas / Lori L. Taylor, Matthew G. Springer, and Mark Ehlert; title: Part Three, Informing Teacher Incentive Policies; title: 10. Teacher salary bonuses in North Carolina / Jacob L. Vigdor; title: 11. Teacher effectiveness, mobility, and attrition in Florida / Martin R. West and Matthew M. Chingos; title: 12. Student outcomes and teacher productivity and perceptions in Arkansas / Marcus A. Winters...[et. al.]; title: 13. Teacher incentives in the developing world / Paul Glewwe, Alaka Holla, and Michael Kremer.