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Vigdor, Jacob L. – National Center on Performance Incentives, 2008
Since the 1996/97 school year, the state of North Carolina has awarded bonuses of up to $1,500 to teachers in schools that exhibit test score gains above certain thresholds. This article reviews the details of the bonus program, describes patterns of differences between schools that qualify for bonuses of differing amounts, and presents basic data…
Descriptors: Teacher Salaries, Elementary Secondary Education, Academic Achievement, Program Effectiveness
Holdzkom, David; Kuligowski, Barbara – 1991
Under the School Improvement and Accountability Act (SIAA) of 1989, North Carolina school districts developed plans for educational improvement. During the 1989-90 school year, 134 school districts developed responses to the SIAA, and all included differentiated teacher salary/pay plans. These pay plans are analyzed, and several generalizations…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Improvement, Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education
Holdzkom, David; Kuligowski, Barbara – 1993
Since 1946, four major efforts to improve educational outcomes through shifts in governance have occurred in North Carolina. The 1989 reforms were characterized by an increase in rhetoric about local control and initiatives, teacher involvement, and school-based management. This paper surveys the last 50 years of educational reform policy in North…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Educational Change, Educational History
Stevens, R. Carole; And Others – 1983
A survey of the medical technology profession in North Carolina was undertaken in 1981 by the North Carolina Area Health Education Center to promote statewide planning. One survey focus was institutional characteristics, including: current staff level, budget vacancies, qualifications to fill vacancies, number of resignations in the last year, and…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations, Certification, Educational Background, Employment Patterns