Performance Pay for Teachers: Implications for Equity
(October 2009) In this episode of the Equity Now: Voices in Education podcasts series, Gail Sunderman speaks with Dr. Jennifer King Rice about how incentives are currently being used in education. She examines the assumptions behind these programs and reviews what we know and don't know about the effects of incentive pay plans for educators. She outlines what districts should consider when developing incentive pay programs.
Jennifer King Rice is an Associate Professor of Education in the Department of Education Policy Studies at the University of Maryland. Dr. Rice is an expert on school finance and teacher quality issues. Her research draws on economics to explore education policy questions concerning the efficiency, equity and adequacy of U.S. public education. Her current work focuses on teachers as a critical resource in the educational process, and she is currently working on several projects that seek to understand the policies and resources needed to hire and retain qualified teachers in difficult to staff schools.
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Pursing School Integration in an Era Judicial and Economic Constraints
(June 2009) In this first episode of the Equity Now: Voices in Education podcasts, MAEC director, Gail Sunderman, Ph.D., speaks with Erica Frankenberg, Ed.D. about ways that public schools can promote racial diversity and avoid racial isolation. Specific attention is paid to how recent Supreme Court decisions affect what school districts can do to address school desegregation. Dr. Frankenberg discusses the challenges these court decisions pose to school integration and the policy options available to educators given the judicial constraints.
Erica Frankenberg is Research and Policy Director for the Initiative for School Integration at the Civil Rights Project, UCLA. She has her doctorate from the Graduate School of Education at Harvard University and has written extensively on issues related to school integration and desegregation. Her work has been cited by the Supreme Court in both the Grutter case in 2003 and the Parents Involved in the Seattle, WA and Louisville, KY decision on voluntary integration polices in 2007.
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