Matthew G. Springer 
Performance Incentives [PDF ebook] 
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 promisingyet still controversialpolicy 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.