links for 2011-04-17

Larry Cuban argues for the benefit of group incentives over individual for encouraging teachers to lift school performance.

Greg Whitby tweeted a link to this report which is likely to influence thinking about teacher appraisal. Seeing it brought to mind a recent blog post by Larry Cuban about the relative merits of individual and group incentives for teachers. I'd neglected to post that link previously but will do that now.

Of course, the point is that it is not so last year but the arguments are worth reading and the variety of approaches discussed opens more possibilities for things we might do.