Food for thought from a friend of mine…read the entire article…link below.
I found interesting…..especially….”If you pay a kid to read books, their grades go up higher than if you actually pay a kid for grades, like we did in Chicago,” Fryer says. Isn’t reading and loving it MUCH MORE IMPORTANT than grades?
They have found that speed matters, for example. Recognition, like punishment, works best if it happens quickly. So KIPP schools pay their kids every week. (Interestingly, the two places Fryer’s experiment worked best were the ones where kids got feedback fast — through biweekly paychecks in Washington and through passing computerized quizzes in Dallas.)
Finally, I agree with his conclusion….should continue to study (vs. blocking the studies) and see what combination of things work.
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1978589,00.html