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The Alternate Incentive To Early Teacher Retirement, Vernon Dean Guinn
The Alternate Incentive To Early Teacher Retirement, Vernon Dean Guinn
Masters Theses
The major emphasis of the study was to formulate an answer to the question being asked by the study group under the Illinois Project for School Reform, "How to improve the quality of teachers within the school system?" Specifically, this study analyzed the results of a study done by the Planning and Research Department of the State Board of Education, prepared in April 1977. Under this study's proposal, four areas of substantial disincentives were identified as reasons for teachers not taking early retirement. The age discrimination effect has since been overcome with early retirement incentives now being offered in many …