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Teachers, Performance Pay, and Accountability: What Education Should Learn From Other Sectors
By Scott J. Adams, John S. Heywood & Richard Rothstein

Preface by Daniel Koretz 
Series editors Sean P. Corcoran and Joydeep Roy
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ISBN: 1-932066-38-1 

Table of Contents
Preface by Daniel Koretz
Introduction by Sean P. Corcoran and Joydeep Roy
Part I: Performance Pay In the . Private Sector: Concepts, Measurement, and Trends 
 Introduction

Types of Performance Pay

Potential and Pitfalls for Performance Pay

measuring Performance Pay: . Incidence and Trends

Performance Pay as a Share pensation 

Conclusion 

Endnotes 

Bibliography
Part II: The Perils of Quantitative Performance Accountability

Introduction
Accountability by the Numbers 

Conclusion 

Endnotes

Bibliography

Acknowledgements

About the Authors

About EPI
Preface
by Daniel Koretz
Accountability for students’ test scores has e the cornerstone of education policy in the United States. State policies that rewarded or punished schools and their staffs for test scores monplace in the 1990s. The No Child Left Behind (NCLB) act federalized this approach and made it in some respects more draconian. There is now growing interest in pay for performance plans that would reward or punish individual teachers rather than entire schools. This volume is impor