This is the first of four planned reports from a multiyear study focusing on the TIF grants awarded in 2010. It examines grantees’ implementation experiences and intermediate educator outcomes near the end of the first year of program implementation, before the first pay-for-performance...

This is the first of four planned reports from a multiyear study focusing on the Teacher Incentive Fund grants awarded in 2010. It examines grantees’ implementation experiences and intermediate educator outcomes near the end of the first year of program implementation, before the first...

This report provides a general overview of EPIC, compares student characteristics across the three partners, and compares the data used to determine which schools receive EPIC awards with data on all the students attending these schools.

Provides an early look at the experiences of districts implementing the Teacher Incentive Fund in 2010.

The Teacher Incentive Fund (TIF) provides grants to support performance-based compensation systems for teachers and principals in high-need schools. This snapshot of the program looks at the early implementation experiences of the 2010 TIF grantees.

This report details our estimation procedures, documents what is currently known about how EPIC operates within the various partners, and provides a work plan for the evaluation.

This report assesses the impact of two years of exposure to the school and career planning program, Roads to Success, on eighth graders from high-poverty rural schools. The main findings are that the program had no measurable effect on desire to learn job skills or study/learning habits....

This report details our estimation procedures, documents what is currently known about how EPIC operates within the various partners, and provides a work plan for the evaluation.

This report provides a general overview of EPIC, compares student characteristics across the three partners, and compares the data used to determine which schools receive EPIC awards with data on all the students attending these schools.