New Materials
CPRE's School Finance Research: Fifteen Years of Findings by Allan Odden. This document provides a summary and synthesis of the last 15 years of CPRE research, policy analysis, and policy suggestions in school finance. A somewhat shorter version of this paper will be available as a Policy Brief in the near future.
Implementation of Standards-Based Principal Evaluation in One School District: First Year Results From Randomized Trial by Steven Kimball, Anthony Milanowski, and Sarah McKinney. This paper reports on research on the pilot year of a new standards-based principal performance evaluation system in a western school district. Results provide contextual information about the relevance of the evaluation standards and procedures to principals’ work, and issues to consider in implementing standards-based principal evaluation systems.
Teacher Performance Pay: Synthesis of Plans, Research and Guidelines for Practice, by Herbert Heneman III, Anthony Milanowski and Steven Kimball, which provides a summary and synthesis of the last 15 years of CPRE research, policy analysis, and policy and practice suggestions for teacher compensation.
How to Create World Class Teacher Compensation, by Allan Odden and Marc Wallace. St. Paul : Freeload Press. Available for download at: www.freeloadpress.com and follow the links to the log in section. This book is available for download at no charge. This is a brand new book that covers a variety of issues related to designing new compensation structures for teachers, including a chapter on developing a compensation strategy, ideas for creating a variety of pay elements based on knowledge and skills, an appendix on a new performance assessment or evaluation system for teachers, and a balanced scorecard for providing bonuses to individual teachers or groups of teachers based on improvements in student performance.
Rewarding Teacher Excellence, by Allan Odden and Marc Wallace. Madison : University of Wisconsin , Wisconsin Center for Education Research, Consortium for Policy Research in Education. This is a teacher compensation handbook for state and local policymakers interested in redesigning teacher salary structures so pay levels are adequate, all classrooms have quality teachers, and teacher compensation structures support the strategic goals of the education system: vastly improved student academic achievement.