Incentives For Excellence In America S Schools
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Incentives For Excellence In America S Schools
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985
Incentives For Excellence In America S Schools written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Education categories.
The current debate about merit pay and career ladders requires that educators, board members, and the general public examine more closely the assumptions that are made about schools and the teachers in them. In this monograph, the complex issues surrounding the question of merit pay and career ladders are addressed. Six common perceptions on the part of the public on the subject of teachers, teaching, and compensation are discussed. A brief history of merit pay and career ladders illustrates the political and administrative problems involved. It is suggested that in responding to such initiatives and before designing merit pay and career ladder programs, the political, economic, and cultural contexts of particular states or school systems must be considered. It is recommended that any decision to implement a pay incentive program should be an informed choice that recognizes all pertinent local variables and clearly comprehends available options. (JD)
Improving America S Schools
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Author : National Research Council
language : en
Publisher: National Academies Press
Release Date : 1996-11-15
Improving America S Schools written by National Research Council and has been published by National Academies Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-11-15 with Education categories.
Reform of American education is largely motivated by concerns about our economic competitiveness and American's standard of living. Yet, few if any of the public school reform agendas incorporate economic principles or research findings. Improving America's Schools explores how education and economic research can help produce, in the words of Harvard's Dale W. Jorgenson, "a unified framework for future education reform." This book presents the perspectives of noted experts, including Eric A. Hanushek, author of Making Schools Work, on creating incentives for improved school and student performance; Under Secretary of Education Marshall S. Smith on the Clinton Administration's reform program; and Rebecca Maynard, University of Pennsylvania, on the education of the disadvantaged. This volume explores these areas: The importance of schooling to labor market success. The prospects for combining school-based management with teacher incentives to gain the best of both approaches. The potential of recent innovations in student achievement testing, including new "value-added" indicators. The economic factors involved in maintaining an adequate stock of effective teachers. The volume also explores why, despite similar standards of living, France, the Netherlands, England, Scotland, and the United States produce different levels of education achievement. Improving America's Schools informs the current debate over school reform with a fresh perspective, examples, and data. This readable volume will be of interest to policymakers, researchers, educators, and education administrators as well as economists and employersâ€"it is also readily accessible to concerned parents and the larger community.
Creating Teacher Incentives For School Excellence And Equity
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Author : Barnett Berry
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
Creating Teacher Incentives For School Excellence And Equity written by Barnett Berry and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with categories.
Ensuring that all students in America's public schools are taught by good teachers is an educational and moral imperative. Teacher incentive proposals are rarely grounded on what high-quality research indicates are the kinds of teacher incentives that lead to school excellence and equity. Few of the current approaches to creating teacher incentives take into account how specific conditions influence whether or not effective teachers will work in high-need schools and will be able to teach effectively in them. Large-scale studies and teacher testimonies suggest that working conditions are far more important than bonuses in persuading teachers to stay or leave their classrooms. National teacher turnover survey data show that teachers who leave because of job dissatisfaction do so for a variety of reasons that can be addressed: low salaries, poor support from school administrators, a lack of student motivation, a lack of teacher influence over decision-making, and student discipline problems. However, current policies, including the one framed by the federally sponsored Teacher Incentive Fund, rarely recognize these realities. We must reward expertise in ways that move beyond recruitment bonuses or pay for improved student test scores. To develop incentive policies that spread teaching expertise and allow for effective teaching will require the careful development of interlocking policies across federal, state, and local agencies. To that end, it is recommended that education policymakers do the following, which are fleshed out in the report: (1) Use the Teacher Incentive Fund to Spread Teaching Expertise for High-Needs Schools; (2) Expand Incentives in Creating Strategic Compensation; (3) Create the Working Conditions that Allow Teachers to Teach Effectively; and (4) Elevate Best Practices and Policies that Spur School Excellence and Equity. (Contains 60 combined notes and references.) [For related report, "Proposed Legislation for Teacher Incentives for School Excellence and Equity," see ED528717.].
The Incentives For School Excellence Program
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Author : Missouri. Department of Elementary and Secondary Education
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988
The Incentives For School Excellence Program written by Missouri. Department of Elementary and Secondary Education and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Educational innovations categories.
Performance Incentives
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Author : Matthew G. Springer
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2009-12-01
Performance Incentives written by Matthew G. Springer and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-12-01 with Education categories.
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.
The Incentives For School Excellence Program
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Author : Missouri. Department of Elementary and Secondary Education
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987
The Incentives For School Excellence Program written by Missouri. Department of Elementary and Secondary Education and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Educational innovations categories.
Incentives For School Excellence
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Author : Missouri. Department of Elementary and Secondary Education
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
Incentives For School Excellence written by Missouri. Department of Elementary and Secondary Education and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Educational innovations categories.
Proposed Legislation For Teacher Incentives For School Excellence And Equity
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Author : Scott R. Bauries
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
Proposed Legislation For Teacher Incentives For School Excellence And Equity written by Scott R. Bauries and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with categories.
Pursuant to the recommendations and findings in Dr. Barnett Berry's policy brief, the proposed set of legislative enactments presented in this paper offers both monetary incentives and positive working conditions requirements likely to further three goals: (a) cause more effective teachers to choose to work in high-need schools and fields, (b) allow teachers already working in such contexts to develop and flourish professionally, and (c) decrease the attrition rate of such teachers from high-need schools, and indeed from teaching in general. The accompanying policy brief contains analyses and recommendations on a variety of topics, each of which adds important contextual information helpful in thinking about incentives for teachers in the areas of recruitment, retention, and effectiveness. The model legislation itself is targeted specifically at goals in these three areas. While some of the policy recommendations in the brief relate to federal, rather than state, efforts and policies, the model legislation that follows is tailored for adoption by states. Accordingly, policy recommendations that appear in Dr. Berry's brief but that fall outside the focused goal of providing incentives for desirable teacher behaviors are not reflected in the model legislation that follows. The same is true more generally of recommendations in the brief that can only be realized through federal legislation. Nevertheless, all of the recommendations and policy analysis contained in the accompanying brief informed the legal judgments that went into crafting the model legislation. Because it is a model legislation, an effort has been made to choose language that is adaptable to differing state policy environments. Where specific policy language choices have been made that may not be compatible with all states' constitutional and/or pre-existing policy requirements, a footnote is inserted in order to explain the ways in which the language may be modified. (Contains 7 footnotes.) [For related report, "Creating Teacher Incentives for School Excellence and Equity," see ED528716.].
Excellence In Education
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Author : Denis P. Doyle
language : en
Publisher: A E I Press
Release Date : 1985
Excellence In Education written by Denis P. Doyle and has been published by A E I Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Education categories.
This book presents a brief description and analysis of the activity of State governments in making educational policy during the past two years. The following three trends are cited as important in the States' increased role: (1) increased State spending on education relative to Federal and local spending; (2) court ordered school finance reform which has led to equalization of spending between districts; and (3) State legislative interest due to the increased spending and a realization of the importance of education to economic growth and social progress. Following an introduction, section two of the book reviews the context for State reforms and discusses the improved professionalism of State governments, the States' interest in educational quality, and the growing perception that high quality education is necessary to ensure economic competitiveness. The third section briefly reviews the States' recent efforts to improve the quality of education, describing the range of new initiatives and summarizing several leading examples of major reforms. The topics covered include teachers, the academic experience, financial support, education organization and structure, and Federal initiatives. The fourth section examines a series of long- and short-range concerns that will have a major impact on the ultimate success or failure of the State efforts to improve the schools, and a final section provides some concluding observations. (CG)
Incentive Pay And Career Ladders For Today S Teachers
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Author : Richard M. Brandt
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 1990-08-27
Incentive Pay And Career Ladders For Today S Teachers written by Richard M. Brandt and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990-08-27 with Education categories.
This book examines how teacher incentive pay and career ladder programs have been implemented—what forms they've taken; what issues arose as programs were established; what their impact has been so far; and what their future might be. It provides a program taxonomy and conceptual framework for understanding current trends within this still-evolving reform movement, including resistance to the change process. Most important, the book analyzes the potential impact on the real world of schools and how these programs affect teachers' skills and students' learning.