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Your Two Cents: Schools Giving Kids Money For Grades

Mar 7 2008 - 8:23am

According to the New York Times [1], more than 200 New York City public schools have been experimenting with incentives for students and teachers to see if "tangible cash rewards can turn a school around." Specifically, performance and the corresponding rewards are based on standardized test scores. Critics argue that these incentives compromise the way children think about learning — the motivation should be knowledge and self-improvement, not dollars. What do you think?

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