The concept of pay for performance for public school teachers is growing in popularity and use, and it has resurged to once again occupy a central role in education policy. "Performance Incentives: Their Growing Impact on American K-12 Education" offers the most up-to-date and complete analysis of this promising - yet still controversial - policy innovation. "Performance Incentives" brings together an interdisciplinary team of experts, providing an unprecedented discussion and analysis of the pay-for-performance debate by: identifying the potential strengths and weaknesses of tying pay to student outcomes; comparing different strategies for measuring teacher accomplishments; addressing key conceptual and implementation issues; describing what teachers themselves think of merit pay; examining recent examples in Arkansas, Florida, North Carolina, and Texas; and, studying the overall impact on student achievement.