Quoted: Allan Odden, a professor of educational leadership and policy analysis at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an expert on teacher compensation, has studied performance-pay models across the country for more than a decade and said the failure of some recent initiatives can be attributed to the fact many merit pay programs have been implemented as a ?pilot? program rather than being integrated with other programs and additional resources. He pointed to a study by the National Center on Performance Incentives at Vanderbilt University that found student test scores did not improve when middle-school math teachers in Nashville were offered bonuses tied to the results.
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