+Economy & Policy | 1369 days ago

Why paying kids to get good grades is a bad idea

By Barbara Kiviat

I cringed this morning when I read the piece in the Wall Street Journal about schools paying students to get good grades. The writer points out that such programs have had mixed results, and hangs his story on a new study of a 12-year-old Texas program. He writes: In Texas, high-school students enrolled in Advanced [...]