Teacher Incentives

Teacher Incentives

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What Factors Affecting Retention Matter Most to Teachers?
Maintaining an adequate supply of teachers is a challenge and an area of significant concern. Rather than a one-size-fits-all approach, a set of interventions developed to target the preferences and expectations of specific groups of teachers is likely to be most effective.
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Apr 5, 2021
Schools Week
Hui Lu, Peter Burge

Gun Violence

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The Most Popular RAND Research of 2018
RAND serves as an objective source of facts that help inform the world's most pressing policy debates. When decisions are based on the best evidence, that's when public policy can have a positive impact on people's lives. We're highlighting the 10 research projects that RAND.org readers found most engaging this year.
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Dec 21, 2018
Retirement and Retirement Benefits

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The Hidden Costs of Pension Plan Reform
While there are many policy options that may decrease pension liabilities for Chicago and cities and states in similar situations, some options being considered may also have serious consequences for the public sector workforce, now and in the future.
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May 18, 2016
The RAND Blog
Kristine M. Brown, James Hosek
Education Policy

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School Principals Respond to Performance-Based Evaluation System
It's fair to say the program turned out to be an important step for the district in the context of its overall reform plan considering how important high-quality school leadership is for improving teaching and learning, write Laura Hamilton and John Engberg.
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Aug 15, 2012
The RAND Blog
Laura S. Hamilton, John Engberg
Teacher Incentives

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American Educational Research Association Honors RAND Research with 'Outstanding Policy Report' Award
A RAND Education report, A Big Apple for Educators, will receive the first Outstanding Policy Report award from the American Educational Research Association. The report analyzes the Schoolwide Performance Bonus Program.
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Apr 2, 2012
Teacher Incentives

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The Debate over Teacher Merit Pay: A Freakonomics Quorum
Motivation alone does not improve schools. Even if incentives inspire staff to improve practices or work together, educators may not have the capacity or resources to bring about improvement, writes Julie Marsh.
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Sep 20, 2011
Freakonomics
Julie A. Marsh

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Software supply chain security has emerged as a leading risk because of the massively fragmented and decentralized nature of modern software development. Unlike other problems in cybersecurity, this is a discrete problem, where the data exist. Information required to map software dependents or dependencies is knowable because there exists a finite limit to the number of nodes and dependencies.

Sasha Romanosky

Senior Policy Researcher

Source: The Hill

Compared to White women, Black women are 3.7 times more likely to die and Asian women 1.8 times more likely to die during or within the 6 weeks after pregnancy.…[W]omen experiencing disadvantage (e.g. domestic abuse, mental health illness, substance abuse) [are] also at greater risk of death during or soon after pregnancy.

Lucy Hocking

Senior Analyst

Source: The RAND Blog

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Teacher Incentives

What Factors Affecting Retention Matter Most to Teachers?

The Most Popular RAND Research of 2018

The Hidden Costs of Pension Plan Reform

School Principals Respond to Performance-Based Evaluation System

American Educational Research Association Honors RAND Research with 'Outstanding Policy Report' Award

The Debate over Teacher Merit Pay: A Freakonomics Quorum

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