Massachusetts Signing Bonus Program for New Teachers

Group Incentives for Teachers: The Impact of the NYC School-Wide Bonus Program on Educational Outcomes

In current debates regarding the future of education, teacher compensation schemes are often criticized for their lack of performance-based pay. Proponents of merit pay for teachers argue that tying teacher salaries to student achievement will induce teachers to focus on the success of their students and stimulate innovation in the school system as a whole. In this paper, we use a randomized po...

Developing a sealant program: the Massachusetts approach.

This paper describes the program structure and strategies being used by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health to promote the utilization of sealants. The program design includes four components: clinical demonstration, consumer education, professional education, and reimbursement. Eighteen Massachusetts neighborhood health centers and six local health departments are participating in th...

Preliminary program aaas annual meeting, Boston, massachusetts.

A New Abuse-free Contract-signing Protocol

-Electronic contract-signing is an important issue in Electronic Commerce. This paper proposed a novel abuse-free contract signing protocol based on convertible signature and non-interactive designated verifier proof. One interesting property is that the outcome evidences are standard RSA signatures, which makes the protocol be easily integrated into existing systems.

Expectations of Teachers from Teachers Professional Development Program in Nepal

Teachers’ Professional Development (TPD) has been realized a powerful approach to implement child friendly activity based education for education in the twenty first century. Though there are at least six models of teachers development, teacher training is the mostly used model in Nepalese context. It has been realized the important of expectations of teachers in TPD program to make TPD bottom-...