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...think [the results] are surprising at first glance...but once you put yourself in the shoes of a student in one of these studies, it actually begins to make a good deal of sense,” Graduate School of Education professor Martin R. West said. “When you are paid to do something you may not know exactly how to accomplish, it’s not clear how you respond. But if you are being offered money to do something very concrete...then that might be easier to respond...
Government Professor and author of “Saving Schools: From Horace Mann to Virtual Learning” Paul E. Peterson argues that “rather than paying kids to learn, one should teach to their ‘price point,’ which varies with every student” and use new technology “to adapt curriculum to each child’s skills and level of mastery...
...interested in what are the four or five investments that, when put together, have the potential to close the achievement gap,” Fryer said. “Incentives could be one of [them], I don’t know yet. This is the first kind of large scale experiment in urban schools on incentives, and I hope it’s not the last...
When it comes to balancing these four characteristics, which he calls “the four satisfactions,” Stevenson said, “It’s about juggling...The most important ball is the one that’s falling...
...event’s moderator, Center Director Donald K. Swearer, said that yesterday’s talk, part of the Center’s series on “Ecologies of Human Flourishing,” was one way to bridge the divide between the Business School and the Divinity School...