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

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.