Cash for school grades? It works.
| January 22, 2008 |  View for printing |
Paying for performance can introduce students to courses they would never otherwise take.
The use of "pay for performance" – linking a financial reward to measurable goals – works in business. But can it also motivate underachieving students? Though cash may at first seem a perverse incentive for education, one study of such a practice shows some promising results.
Texas pays $500 to students in low-income, largely minority school districts who pass an exam for an Advanced Placement course. Known as the Advanced Placement Incentive Program (APIP), the practice has been around for more than a decade and has spread to a few other states.
What are the results so far?
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