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National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2014
The Teacher Incentive Fund (TIF) provides grants to support performance-based compensation systems for teachers and principals in high-need schools. The study measures the impact of pay-for-performance bonuses as part of a comprehensive compensation system within a large, multisite random assignment study design. The treatment schools were to…
Descriptors: Merit Pay, Incentives, Grants, Federal Aid
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Max, Jeffrey; Constantine, Jill; Wellington, Alison; Hallgren, Kristin; Glazerman, Steven; Chiang, Hanley; Speroni, Cecilia – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2014
The Teacher Incentive Fund (TIF) provides grants to support performance-based compensation systems for teachers and principals in high-need schools. The study measures the impact of pay-for-performance bonuses as part of a comprehensive compensation system within a large, multisite random assignment study design. The treatment schools were to…
Descriptors: Merit Pay, Incentives, Grants, Federal Aid
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Max, Jeffrey; Constantine, Jill; Wellington, Alison; Hallgren, Kristin; Glazerman, Steven; Chiang, Hanley; Speroni, Cecilia – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2014
The Teacher Incentive Fund (TIF) provides grants to support performance-based compensation systems for teachers and principals in high-need schools. The study measures the impact of pay-for-performance bonuses as part of a comprehensive compensation system within a large, multisite random assignment study design. The treatment schools were to…
Descriptors: Merit Pay, Incentives, Grants, Federal Aid
McMurrer, Jennifer; McIntosh, Shelby – Center on Education Policy, 2012
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), also known as the stimulus package, appropriated $100 billion for education and included $3 billion for school improvement grants (SIGs) to help reform low-performing schools. This amount was in addition to the $546 million provided by the regular fiscal year 2009 appropriations bill for…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Programs, Educational Change, State Departments of Education
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Smith, Deborah Deutsch; Truong, Anthony; Watson, Roxanne; Hartley, Melissa D.; Robb, Susan Mortorff; Gilmore, Robert – Teacher Education and Special Education, 2011
Three studies are described in this article. Each is focused on a different aspect of the long-standing initiative that supports special education doctoral students. This initiative is one of the discretionary programs of the Individuals With Disabilities Education Improvement Act that is managed by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of…
Descriptors: Graduation Rate, Disabilities, Special Education Teachers, Public Agencies
Comerford, James P.; Carlson, Margaret – 1985
This paper describes the approach taken by the Office of Compensatory Education of the Michigan Department of Education to provide microcomputer training to Chapter 1 administrators. It reports on the two objectives of the study to evaluate the effects of the training program: (1) to assess the short term effects of teaching administrators to use…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Education, Computer Software, Data Processing
Scott, Elois Skeen – 1979
Included in this report are the questions that were asked of math and reading teachers, generalists, aides, and principals during the course of the evaluation, general observations made by the evaluator, and a discussion of observations and recommendations made by both the Title I staff and the evaluator. Each discussion focuses on the respective…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Attitudes, Compensatory Education, Cooperative Programs