Monday, September 13, 1999
| 1:00 pm | WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION | |
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| John Raisian | Hoover Institution and Koret K-12 Education Task Force | |
| Michael Boozer | Hoover Institution and Yale University | |
| There are two basic themes to the conference: (1) The use of incentive schemes (merit pay) in public education to enhance the efficiency of spending on public education, and (2) New evidence regarding and ideas for school choice plans. | ||
| 1:15 pm | EVIDENCE OF MERIT PAY EFFECTS | |
| Carolyn Kelley | University of Wisconsin | |
| Kentucky has experimented with merit pay and incentive plans. Kelley and Allan Odden have analyzed the data, and she will present their findings. | ||
| 2:00 pm | THE DESIGN AND EFFECTS OF MERIT PAY PROPOSALS FOR PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS | |
| Michael Boozer | Hoover Institution and Yale University | |
| An analysis of the evidence on the effect in incentive programs for teacher pay on student outcomes and teacher characteristics. | ||
| 3:00 pm | WOULD SCHOOL CHOICE CHANGE THE MARKET FOR TEACHERS? | |
| Caroline Hoxby | Harvard University and Koret K-12 Education Task Force | |
| In her new work, Hoxby addresses one of the first questions economists ponder when faced with a new set of conditions. As more choices are made available to students, how will the market for their teachers react? Will public schools be forced to increase pay to keep their best teaches who may now be bid away by private schools? Will teachers seek to transfer to charter schools within the public school systems, but where there may be more flexibility in the pedagogical techniques they use? What other impacts might there be? | ||
| 3:45 pm | PUBLIC AND PRIVATE VOUCHERS | |
| Paul Peterson | Harvard University and Koret K-12 Education Task Force | |
| A publicly-financed voucher plan has just passed in Florida and a number of other plans (most notably in New York City and Milwaukee) have been in existence for a number of years. Using the most recent data from New York, Milwaukee, and Texas, Peterson is leading the research that is evaluating these data to determine the success of both publicly- and privately-financed programs. | ||
| 4:30 pm | SYMPOSIUM CLOSES | |
