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9780470604427

Rewards and Reform Creating Educational Incentives That Work

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  • ISBN13:

    9780470604427

  • ISBN10:

    0470604425

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1996-05-15
  • Publisher: Jossey-Bass
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Summary

Noted experts offer a comprehensive view of student, teacher, managerial, and organizational incentives and show how they are linked to school reform goals.

Author Biography

SUSAN H. FUHRMAN is dean of the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania and a director of the Consortium for Policy Research in Education.

JENNIFER A. O'DAY is associate director of the Pew Forum on Education Reform.

Table of Contents

Preface

The Editors

The Contributors

1 Introduction: Incentives and School Improvement 1

2 Motivating Students to Learn: An American Dilemma 19

3 Rewarding Teachers for Student Performance 60

4 Motivation for School Reform 115

5 Restructuring Schools for High Performance 144

6 Standards as Incentives for Instructional Reform 195

7 Incentives, School Organization, and Teacher Compensation 226

8 Teaching to New Standards 257

9 Getting to Scale with Successful Educational Practices 294

10 Conclusion: Building a Better System of Incentives 330

Index 343

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