Tell Us: Should students be paid to excel? (NYTimes.com)
An article in the New York Times last week described a pilot program in New York City public schools that provides monetary incentives to students for meritorious performance on standardized tests. Since the beginning of the school year, the district has distributed $500,000 to 5,237 students in 58 schools. Read the article at NYTimes.com and tell us what you think of the plan. According to … Continue reading Tell Us: Should students be paid to excel? (NYTimes.com)