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Is paying students for grades a good idea? More and more cities are launching “pay for grades” pilot programs in an effort to increase student motivation and improve performance. But is it working?
We visited Coshocton, Ohio—a factory town that’s been paying students for years and keeping track of the results—to find out.
(Originally aired August 11, 2008)
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April 15, 2010 at 11:49 pm
Tim Johnson says:
As an educator I find this practice disgusting. They are learning the wrong lesson by being paid to gain knowledge. It is shown that when you take away the incentive the students’ performance plummets. This video of Dan Pink’s TED Talk explains how this practice will fail. http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pink_on_motivation.html