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...Professor of English Helen Vendler: you recently mentioned that modern poets, unlike poets in the past, have no afterlife in which to place themselves or a journey to look forward to. How does this affect their takes on life, as well as death...
...write this in Peet’s, where an army of hipsters has been shooting me death glares ever since my failure to immediately move upon finishing my hot chocolate. “Move, outlet-hogging bitch,” their eyes say. “And is that...Lady Gaga’s ‘Telephone’ coming out of your iPod? We hope you are listening to that ironically.” Everything seems faster here; everyone seems busier. Maybe it’s just that it’s home. There?...
...Since there have been children, there have been adults trying to get them to cooperate. The Bible repeatedly commands children to heed their parents and proposes that disobedient children be stoned to death or at least have their eyes picked out by ravens. Over the centuries, the stick (or paddle or switch) has lost favor, in most cases, to the carrot. Today the petty bribes - a sticker for using the toilet or a cookie for sitting still in church - start before kids can speak in full sentences...
...something education researchers almost never do: he ran a randomized experiment in hundreds of classrooms in multiple cities. He used mostly private money to pay 18,000 kids a total of $6.3 million and brought in a team of researchers to help him analyze the effects. He got death threats, but he carried on. The results, which he shared exclusively with TIME, represent the largest study of financial incentives in the classroom - and one of the more rigorous studies ever on anything in education policy. (See Roland Fryer Jr. in the 2009 TIME...
...never expected. "I remember going to schools and seeing how excited the kids were when they got their checks. They were like pep rallies - but around academic success!" he says. Fryer appeared on The Colbert Report and CNN to talk about the experiment, and that's about when the death threats started. All the while, Fryer refused to speculate about what the data would reveal. He was not all that interested in whether the kids raised their grades or turned in their homework. Grades are subjective. The more objective measure would come at the end of the year, when...