Sentences with phrase «performance pay plan»

The international evidence on performance pay is more encouraging, including a recent worldwide look that indicates that students learn more in countries with performance pay plans, all other known factors held constant.

In the administration's Race to the Top initiative, the U.S. Department of Education encouraged states to devise performance pay plans for teachers in the hope that such an intervention could have a significant impact on student performance.

According to a 2010 report from the Arizona Auditor General, out of 222 districts receiving CSF funding, the auditor could identify only 29 «with strong performance pay plans that did a good job of linking teacher performance pay to student achievement.»

The report noted that «allowing districts the freedom to determine performance pay goals can help gain district and teacher buy - in,» but that such freedom «has also led to inconsistent performance pay plans and to situations in which teachers receive similar performance pay for significantly different levels of effort and related performance results.»

In Florida, Iowa, and Texas, the legislatures have encouraged local districts to enact performance pay plans.

But enacting high - quality performance pay plans in the United States is easier said than done.

«There are hundreds of districts working on performance pay plans; many states passed legislation requiring some type of performance pay for teachers, or some portion of teacher pay,» said Dr. Marc J. Wallace Jr., founding partner of the Center for Workforce Effectiveness, which is allied with the Center for Policy Research.

The analysis presented above represents the first evidence that, all other observable things equal, students in countries with teacher performance pay plans perform at a higher level in math, reading, and science.

The deal was hailed by many education advocates as one of the boldest performance pay plans in the country.

Eleven schools in the city will use SIG funding for the Transformation model and a new performance pay plan.

Even if one counts the most token of performance pay plans, they are to be found in no more than 500 school districts out of some 14,000 districts nationwide, a mere 3.5 percent of the total.

So some will agree to a performance pay plan, but then transform it into an across - the - board salary hike: defining high performance as things everyone does (taking classes toward an advanced degree), setting standards so low that everyone gets the maximum award, or giving all teachers the same evaluation.

The study design also does not allow one to tease out the relative importance of the incentive to existing teachers of a performance pay plan as compared to the changes that may take place in teacher recruitment when compensation depends in part on merit rather than just on a standardized pay schedule.

Since one - quarter of a standard deviation is roughly a year's worth of learning, it might reasonably be concluded that by the age of 15, students taught under a policy regime that includes a performance pay plan will learn an additional year of math and reading and over half a year more in science.

A little - used survey conducted by the OECD in 2005 makes it possible to identify the developed countries participating in PISA that appear to have some kind of performance pay plan.

For example, performance pay could be more widely used in places where, as in Asia, cultural expectations for student performance are high, making it appear that performance pay systems are effective, when in fact both performance pay plans and student achievement are the result of underlying cultural characteristics.

Nations are simply lumped together as having or not having a performance pay plan.

When Miami - Dade public schools rolled out their performance pay plan to fanfare and cheering last year, it was the first district in Florida to get a head start on what will become a mandated policy in 2014 and felt like it took on frontrunner status in the nation.

In New York City, a performance pay plan that was rolled out in 2007, with support from the city's teachers union, rewarded entire schools on their progress in raising student test scores.

The performance pay plan, a cornerstone of Rhee's effort to overhaul the city schools, is backed by a new contract with the Washington Teachers» Union and funding from private foundations.

Opposition from the unions to performance pay plans, ending tenure and using student test score data in teacher evaluations, also fall on deaf ears.

Support a performance pay plan that recognizes teachers for their effectiveness.

After all, Indiana's piloting a teacher evaluation and performance pay plan this year and rolling the plan out statewide in 2012 - 13.