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Performance Incentives: Their Growing Impact on American K-12 Education
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Springer, Matthew G., Ed. – Brookings Institution Press, 2009
The concept of "pay for performance" for public school teachers is once again growing in popularity and use. U.S. education is now at a critical juncture that requires thoughtful and informed consideration of this policy innovation. "Performance Incentives" offers the most up-to-date and complete analysis yet of the…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Public School Teachers, Job Performance, Incentives
Characteristics and Determinants of Teacher-Designed Pay for Performance Plans: Evidence from Texas' Governor's Educator Excellence Grant (GEEG) Program. Research Brief
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National Center on Performance Incentives, 2008
In "Characteristics and Determinants of Teacher-Designed Pay for Performance Plans: Evidence from Texas' Governor's Educator Excellence Grant (GEEG) Program"--a paper presented at the February 2008 National Center on Performance Incentives research to policy conference--Lori Taylor, Matthew Springer, and Mark Ehlert describe the teacher…
Descriptors: Teacher Salaries, Merit Pay, Awards, Grants
Career Ladders and the Professionalization of Teaching: Down the Up Staircase.
Dunwell, Robert R. – 1986
School systems interested in improving teacher performance, effectiveness, and job satisfaction while reducing turnover rates might do better to seek ways to enhance the intrinsic rewards of teaching rather than implement such extrinsic motivators as merit pay plans and career ladders. A review of the research literature brings several important…
Descriptors: Career Ladders, Job Performance, Merit Pay, Professional Development