When I first began teaching 9 years ago in MNPS, Vanderbilt was beginning a pay for performance study in Nashville middle school mathematics classrooms. This was the first scientific study of its kind in the US, and it sought to answer if merit pay alone, independent of other resources and ...
Reports how a pay raise for Securities and Exchange Commission professionals would hurt the agency's drive to attract and retain lawyers and accountants. A provision that put SEC workers under federal ethics rules that restrict post-government work; Why SEC chairman Harvey Pitt sought the pay ...
And yes, that’s even AFTER Gov. Bill Lee’s proposed teacher pay raise announced in last night’s State of the State address. Here’s more fromNewsBreak: “Tennessee teachers are the best in the Southeast, and we have the outcomes and data to back that up, but we are not paid as ...
2 All-pay auction contests with best-shot group performance We model a situation in which several groups compete for a prize that is a public good for the winning group. This eliminates concerns about how to share a prize in the event of winning; however, it introduces free-riding among gr...