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Direct linkEdwards, Virginia B., Ed. – Education Week, 2015
This 19th annual edition of "Quality Counts" takes a broad look at the issues and forces shaping the discussion around early-childhood education. It examines how new academic demands and the push for accountability are changing the nature of early-childhood education for school administrators, teachers, and children alike. Reporters…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Educational Quality, Kindergarten, Primary Education
Fleming, Nora – Education Week, 2011
Two competing pressures--downsized budgets and rising policy interest--have left the future of performance-based teacher compensation uncertain. A dicey fiscal climate and research that has shown limited impact have led some states and districts to scale back, abandon, or change their fledgling merit-pay programs, causing observers to wonder what…
Descriptors: Teacher Salaries, Merit Pay, Educational Finance, Budgeting
Honawar, Vaishali; Keller, Bess – Education Week, 2008
Independent studies of the nation's largest performance-pay system suggest that the state-backed plans in Texas could be having positive effects on teacher attitudes, with educators reporting they collaborate more with colleagues and encourage students to work harder than they did before the plans were implemented. Schools participating in the…
Descriptors: Merit Pay, Incentives, Educational Research, Program Effectiveness
Viadero, Debra – Education Week, 2007
In the 1980s, school districts dabbled with programs that offered teachers cash inducements, such as bonuses or raises, for doing their jobs well. But those merit-pay programs were mostly short-lived, hotly debated, and understudied. Even after all this time, no one knows definitively whether children learn more when teachers are paid extra for…
Descriptors: Merit Pay, Educational Research, Teacher Employment Benefits, Academic Achievement
Hendrie, Caroline – Education Week, 2005
Private foundations can play a critical, catalytic role in changing American public education for the better, but they could and should be getting more bang for their bucks than they are right now. This article reports on a diverse collection of research papers that aims to shed unprecedented light both on the scope of contemporary education…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Change, Donors, School Choice
Download full textViadero, Debra; Johnston, Robert C. – Education Week, 2000
This fourth in a four-part series on why academic achievement gaps exist describes the Minority Achievement Committee scholars program at Shaker Heights High School in Cleveland, Ohio, a powerful antidote to the achievement gap between minority and white and Asian American students. It explains the need to break down stereotypes about academic…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Students, Class Size, Diversity (Student)
