Performance Incentives

"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. "