“Performance Incentives” in Education Week: Article Discusses Authors’ Findings on Using Pay for Educational Change

Education Week takes a look at the research presented in Performance Incentives: Their Growing Impact on American K-12 Education edited by Matthew G. Springer:

While much of the national debate over performance incentives for teachers has centered on bonuses based on student test scores, a new book suggests that such incentives come in all shapes and sizes, and offers some new research on little-studied aspects of those strategies.

The articles goes on to discuss the potential of incentives for weeding out ineffective teachers, retaining good ones, and recruiting hard-to-staff schools.

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[Education Tay]

Although performance related pay was available depending on student grades in examinations for a teacher’s classes. No teacher paid any attention to a significant bonus on good examination results, as most teachers were already doing what they could for the students in their class.

Performance pay in education could work for high performance teacher to move to low performing schools.

[nickknight]

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