{"id":3162,"date":"2012-11-01T11:10:01","date_gmt":"2012-11-01T16:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/performanceincentives\/?page_id=3162"},"modified":"2012-11-01T15:15:49","modified_gmt":"2012-11-01T20:15:49","slug":"wednesday-september-30th-2009","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/performanceincentives\/ncpi-newsletter\/wednesday-september-30th-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday, September 30th, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h4>Performance Incentives: Their Growing Impact on American K-12 Education<\/h4>\n<p>The concept of pay for performance for public school teachers is growing in popularity and use, and has resurged to once again occupy a central role in education policy.<em>Performance Incentives: Their Growing Impact on American K-12 Education<\/em>offers the most up-to-date and complete analysis of this promising &#8211; yet still controversial &#8211; policy innovation. The volume is published by the Brookings Institution Press. To order a copy, please\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/research\/books\/2009\/performanceincentives\">click here<\/a> or call 1-800-537-5487 or 410-516-6956.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Performance Incentives: Their Growing Impact on American K-12 Education\" href=\"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/performanceincentives\/ncpi-newsletter\/wednesday-september-30th-2009\/performance-incentives-their-growing-impact-on-american-k-12-education\/\">More<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h2>News<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h4>NCPI Explores Role of Teacher Retirement Benefit Systems<\/h4>\n<p>The subject of teacher pensions is a critical and yet understudied area in the education policy. NCPI&#8217;s 2009 national conference brought together scholars from renowned universities and research institutions across the country to discuss the design and implications of teacher retirement systems used in the American K-12 public education system.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"NCPI Explores Role of Teacher Retirement Benefit Systems\" href=\"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/performanceincentives\/ncpi-newsletter\/wednesday-september-30th-2009\/ncpi-explores-role-of-teacher-retirement-benefit-systems\/\">More<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\n<h4>NCPI Finds Performance Pay Supported by Texas Educators, Holds Promise for Retaining Teachers<\/h4>\n<p>Performance pay is generally supported by teachers in schools where it is implemented and holds promise for retaining teachers in those schools, two new NCPI studies about Texas&#8217; teacher performance pay program have found. The research was conducted by a team of researchers from NCPI, the RAND Corporation, Texas A&amp;M University, and University of Missouri under a grant from the Texas Education Agency<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"NCPI Finds Performance Pay Supported by Texas Educators, Holds Promise for Retaining Teachers\" href=\"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/performanceincentives\/ncpi-newsletter\/wednesday-september-30th-2009\/ncpi-finds-performance-pay-supported-by-texas-educators-holds-promise-for-retaining-teachers\/\">More<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\n<h4>NCPI and CALDER Hold Research Conference on Emerging Findings of No Child Left Behind Act<\/h4>\n<p>The Washington D.C.-based Urban Institute\u2019s National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER) and NCPI held a research conference entitled<em>NCLB: Emerging Findings <\/em>on August 12, 2009<em>. <\/em>More than 20 policy analysts and leading experts in the field of education policy research convened at this conference to discuss the No Child Left Behind Act.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"NCPI and CALDER Hold Research Conference on Emerging Findings of No Child Left Behind Act\" href=\"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/performanceincentives\/ncpi-newsletter\/wednesday-september-30th-2009\/ncpi-and-calder-hold-research-conference-on-emerging-findings-of-no-child-left-behind-act\/\">More<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h2>Upcoming Events<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h4><a title=\"NCPI affiliates to present at REL Midwest conference \u2013 October 15-16, 2009\" href=\"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/performanceincentives\/ncpi-newsletter\/wednesday-september-30th-2009\/ncpi-affiliates-to-present-at-rel-midwest-conference-october-15-16-2009\/\">NCPI affiliates to present at REL Midwest conference &#8211; October 15-16, 2009<\/a><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h4><a title=\"NCPI affiliates to present at 31st Annual APPAM conference \u2013 November 5-7, 2009\" href=\"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/performanceincentives\/ncpi-newsletter\/wednesday-september-30th-2009\/ncpi-affiliates-to-present-at-31st-annual-appam-conference-november-5-7-2009\/\">NCPI affiliates to present at 31st Annual APPAM conference &#8211; November 5-7, 2009<\/a><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h2>Recent Publications<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h4>NCPI Completes Evaluation of Nation&#8217;s Largest State-Funded Performance Pay Program<\/h4>\n<p>These reports present findings from the third-year evaluations of Texas&#8217; Governor&#8217;s Educator Excellence Grant (GEEG) program and the Texas Educator Excellence Grant (TEEG) program.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"NCPI Completes Evaluation of Nation\u2019s Largest State-Funded Performance Pay Program\" href=\"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/performanceincentives\/ncpi-newsletter\/wednesday-september-30th-2009\/ncpi-completes-evaluation-of-nations-largest-state-funded-performance-pay-program\/\">More<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\n<h4>Hansen, Podgursky, and Costrell Compile Research on Teacher Retirement Systems<\/h4>\n<p>This research brief,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/584\/2012\/11\/Final_ResearchBriefNCPIlayoutJuly201.pdf\">&#8220;Teacher Retirement Systems: Research Findings&#8221;<\/a>,\u00a0provides a summary of findings presented at NCPI&#8217;s 2009 conference,\u00a0<em>Rethinking Teacher Retirement Benefit Systems<\/em>.<br \/>\n<a title=\"Hansen, Podgursky, and Costrell Compile Research on Teacher Retirement Systems\" href=\"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/performanceincentives\/ncpi-newsletter\/wednesday-september-30th-2009\/hansen-podgursky-and-costrell-compile-research-on-teacher-retirement-systems\/\">More<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Performance Incentives: Their Growing Impact on American K-12 Education The concept of pay for performance for public school teachers is growing in popularity and use, and has resurged to once again occupy a central role in education policy.Performance Incentives: Their Growing Impact on American K-12 Educationoffers the most up-to-date and complete analysis of this promising&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":853,"featured_media":0,"parent":48,"menu_order":10,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3162","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/performanceincentives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/performanceincentives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/performanceincentives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/performanceincentives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/853"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/performanceincentives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3162"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/performanceincentives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3166,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/performanceincentives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3162\/revisions\/3166"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/performanceincentives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/48"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/performanceincentives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/performanceincentives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}