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A Study Of The School Principal Labor Market In Arkansas: Implications For Incentive-Based Compensation Policies To Improve Principal Quality, Marc Jacob Holley May 2009

A Study Of The School Principal Labor Market In Arkansas: Implications For Incentive-Based Compensation Policies To Improve Principal Quality, Marc Jacob Holley

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Improving principal quality in Arkansas may be a partial solution to the public policy problem of low performing public schools. Just as policymakers in other states are beginning to explore incentive-based compensation policies to improve principal quality, education policymakers in Arkansas should look to these policies as a way to align goals and minimize agency costs. Setting incentives tied to transparent, publicly available performance measures can resolve monitoring difficulties inherent in principal-agent relationships and can improve goal congruence by signaling clearly about policy priorities. Before plowing forward with performance pay reforms for school principals, Arkansas policymakers could make better decisions …


A Comparative Case Study Of Leadership Responsibilities Between Principals Of Four Comprehensive High Schools Versus Four Magnet High Schools In Single Urban District, Jose Aviles Jan 2009

A Comparative Case Study Of Leadership Responsibilities Between Principals Of Four Comprehensive High Schools Versus Four Magnet High Schools In Single Urban District, Jose Aviles

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

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