Learn to Earn: I caught this Lehrer Newshour segment on cash payments for learning – one of the latest in a series of appalling ideas spawned by testing mania.
Surprise: A startling effect- the cash only made things worse.
Watch the video and see what you think about this latest example of disincentives for learning. Can you think of a better use for the money ?
Isn’t that sad! I am sure they could find so many other ways to use that money. I can’t imagine how those teachers must’ve felt.
It gets worse!
Times yesterday had a whole thing on paying for AP’s in NYC. And it didn’t work.
Big surprise.
This is the article:
"Mixed results on paying students to pass tests"
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/20/education/20cash.html?_r=1&sq=sol%20stern&st=cse&oref=slogin&scp=4&pagewanted=print
When we do this we steal the very nature of children’s minds: the love of learning.
What’s going on here?
Have we abandoned our children and our future? Yikes!