Teachers, Performance Pay, and Accountability: What Education Should Learn from Other Sectors (Epi Series on Alternative Teacher Compensation Systems)

This volume reviews a long history of performance accountability systems in the public and private arenas. Historical examples illustrate numerous instances of goal distortion, gaming and measure corruption that have led most organizations to combine quantitative measures with more subjective measures of quality and service. This book provides important context and lessons from past experience for the potential design and implementation of pay-for-performance systems in education.