Should We Pay Kids to Learn?
via Let’s Pay Students to Learn | Hoover Institution.
The numbers reported by the Nation’s Report Card of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) show that approximately two-thirds of American public school students achieve below grade level in reading and mathematics. This is old news, and yet reform efforts over three decades have yielded insignificant improvements. Why? And what can be done?
The needed resources and technologies are here. The U.S. is near the top of the list in per student spending on public schools and is well known for its advanced technologies. Little used educational technologies could transform our schools from their deplorable status into successful institutions that would bring the vast majority of American children to grade-level performance. Among the technologies available, two in particular, used wisely, show substantial effects: incentives and automated tutoring.
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no
we should start returning money to taxpayers when they dont
starting with administrators and ending with teachers
My son is 13 and about to go in to ninth grade. He passed advanced math in eight grade (requiring him to pass 9th and 10th grade algebra) with an “A” …
And what keep’s him on track?
a REAL nice laptop that he knows will be gone forever if he goes under a “B” and when he starts to drive in a couple years he will not get the 1980 El Camino to go to school in nor will he get to use the ’64 Impala …
YES! He is bribed real well and has his focus set on a minimum of 7 years of higher education before he gets married!
… and seriously – the boy is doing amazingly well!
… just ask me – I am his PROUD papa!
By all means, we need more trained monkeys who view learning as a job with duty hours and compensation for effort. Dissembling by calling it “paid to learn” doesn’t change the fact that it is reward for passing a test.
What we should be teaching them is how to study and how to learn instead of how to regurgitate.
Although it would be good training for a life in politics or government and the incumbent corruption:
So by all means pay kids to “learn” but don’t be surprised when they won’t learn off the clock and without a pay raise.
SUN TV broached this subject as well
It’s weird seeing Canada get ahead of my fav American outlets on issues
just saying..
SUN TV is beyond FOX these days
WTF?
We start paying kids to learn and how long will it be before they get unionized too?
Honestly, we need to change the culture. Learning should be something that kids look forward to, not something to dread. Kids who are smart should be looked up to, not denigrated for being nerds. Parents need to be as engaged in their children’s learning as the kids are themselves. And, most importantly, we need a total top to bottom reform of our education system.
Children start out wanting to learn. They really do. We should be asking ourselves what it is about our society that manages to kill that impulse to early and so brutally.
Umm… NO.
That was easy. Next question….
But if you are going to pay, then if the kid gets less than a ‘B’ send a bill to the parents for having let their little chirp waste the taxpayers money.
Parents should reward kids generously with money/gifts for good grades.
Kids need to learn to associate hard work with financial success.
When I grew up there were, for all practical purposes, no rewards whatsoever for good grades. (No, honor roll doesn’t count – honor roll + $1 gets you a cup of coffee). The (incorrect) message I learned was good grades get you nowhere. By the time I learned the importance of grades, it was too late.