Incentives don’t work to drive teacher performance in public schools.
That’s the headline select special interests might have one believe from a recently released report from the National Bureau of Economic Research. “Teacher Incentives and Student Achievement: Evidence From New York City Public Schools” by Roland G. Fryer, provides results from a test conducted in 2007-2010 in over 200 high-need schools, whereby $75 million in incentives was distributed to over....