Performance Incentives

Their Growing Impact on American K-12 Education
Herausgeber: Springer, Matthew G

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 346
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. September 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780815780793
• ISBN-10: 0815780796
• Artikelnr.: 24655414

Autorenporträt

"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)."