Publications

How best to add value? Strike a balance between the individual and the organization in school reform

{REL[pub_author_1]JIFVyddTREL} {REL[pub_author_2]zc0pxdrxREL} October 23, 2009

This review of the current evidence finds that there is still a need to better understand how schools can support and enhance the work of the teachers who staff them.

Redesigning Teacher Pay [event]

{REL[pub_author_1]JIFVyddTREL} {REL[pub_author_2]zc0pxdrxREL} October 1, 2009

This forum marked the release of Redesigning Teacher Pay: A System for the Next Generation of Educators, the second volume in The Economic Policy Institute Series on Alternative Teacher Compensation Systems.

Redesigning Teacher Pay—A System for the Next Generation of Educators

{REL[pub_author_1]JIFVyddTREL} {REL[pub_author_2]zc0pxdrxREL} October 1, 2009

The second volume in EPI's Series on Alternative Teacher Compensation Systems, Redesigning Teacher Pay provides a simple framework for designing and evaluating performance pay plans for teachers. This new book offers four case studies of performance pay in action and proposes a simple, yet powerful plan for reforming compensation for the next generation of teachers.

Making mountains out of molehills: Do teacher pensions create “peculiar incentives” for retirement?

{REL[pub_author_1]JIFVyddTREL} {REL[pub_author_2]zc0pxdrxREL} September 4, 2009

A new Policy Memo responds to a recent study on teacher pensions and takes a closer look at why current benefit formulas are structured the way they are.

Teachers, Performance Pay, and Accountability

{REL[pub_author_1]JIFVyddTREL} {REL[pub_author_2]zc0pxdrxREL} Richard Rothstein May 14, 2009