Rewards Reform Educational Incentives P - Paperback

by Fuhrman (Author)

Noted experts offer a comprehensive view of student, teacher, managerial, and organizational incentives and show how they are linked to school reform goals.

Front Jacket

Accomplishing significant and meaningful change in K-12 education will require major changes in the incentives that motivate people throughout the system. This book provides a broad and thoughtful set of perspectives on the nature of existing incentives and how they need to be changed. It is an important book for anyone interested in education reform.
--Helen Ladd, professor of public policy studies and economics, Duke University

Rewards and Reform offers a comprehensive view of student, teacher, managerial, and organizational incentives and shows how they are linked to school reform goals. Noted experts in education policy, pratice, and research, as well as respected thinkers and practitioners from the public and private sectors, consider a variety of incentive approaches.

Author Biography

SUSAN H. FUHRMAN is dean of the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania and a director of the Consortium for Policy Research in Education.

JENNIFER A. O'DAY is associate director of the Pew Forum on Education Reform.