Matthew G. Springer is a research assistant professor of public policy and education at the Peabody College of Vanderbilt University, where he directs the federally funded National Center on Performance Incentives. He is coauthor (with James Guthrie, Eric Houck, and Anthony Rolle) of the leading school finance textbook, School Finance and Policy (Pearson, 2007), and coeditor (with Mark Berends and Herbert Walberg) of Charter School Outcomes (Lawrence Erlbaum, 2007).