The results of the nation’s first scientific evaluation of performance pay for teachers will be released Sept. 21, 2010, at 12:45pm CDT by the National Center on Performance Incentives at Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College of education and human development.

Video of the event will be streamed live at http://news.vanderbilt.edu/live. An archive of the video will be posted to that website after the event.

The event will present the findings of the Project on Incentives in Teaching, or POINT, a three-year experiment conducted in Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools that studied the effect of teacher pay bonuses on student performance. The study was conducted by the National Center on Performance Incentives at Vanderbilt in partnership with the RAND Corporation.