Alan Odden is professor emeritus of educational leadership and policy analysis at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and co-director of the Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE). He previously served as professor of education policy and administration at the University of Southern California (1984-1993) and director of Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE), an education policy consortium of USC, Stanford and the University of California, Berkeley.
This paper explores the value teachers place on financial incentives and how much of a salary incentive is needed to attract new teachers to high-needs schools.
This working paper shows that many districts have accelerated student learning by reallocating funds to emphasize targeted assistance to students, fewer non-instructional burdens on teachers, greater use of instructional technology, coaching for teachers, and class size reduction targeted on core classes only.