Performance incentives : their growing impact on American K-12 education /

"Offers an analysis of the promise and controversy around teacher pay for performance. Identifies potential strengths and weaknesses of performance-driven compensation policies and addresses key conceptual and implementation issues that have dominated the debate surrounding teacher compensation...

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Other Authors:	Springer, Matthew G.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, [2009]
Subjects:	Teachers > Salaries, etc. > United States. Merit pay > United States. Teachers > Rating of > United States.

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Summary:	"Offers an analysis of the promise and controversy around teacher pay for performance. Identifies potential strengths and weaknesses of performance-driven compensation policies and addresses key conceptual and implementation issues that have dominated the debate surrounding teacher compensation as an avenue for school reform"--Provided by publisher.
Physical Description:	viii, 336 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9780815780809 (hardcover : alk. paper) 081578080X (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780815780793 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0815780796 (pbk. : alk. paper)