Paying vendors for student results — from hechingerreport.org by Jill Barshay
The first evaluation of outcomes-based contracting found student achievement sometimes improved under this approach
Instead of paying vendors simply for delivering these tools, school districts are experimenting with a new approach to purchasing, called outcomes-based contracting, in which part of a vendor’s payment depends on whether students actually use the service and meet agreed-upon academic goals. The idea is to share risk between schools and vendors — and create incentives for both sides to pay closer attention to whether an intervention is working.
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This could be tough to do. But it’s an interesting posting/idea/approach/strategy. Are the goals reached due to the tools/products/services of the vendors or are those products and services just one piece of the overall learning pie?