District To Pay $100 For Good Performances On State Exams - Education

Seeded on Mon Jan 22, 2007 6:28 PM EST (newsnet5.com)

An eastern Ohio school district is experimenting with an incentive usually deployed by parents to coax good grades out of students -- paying them up to $100 for good performances on state achievement exams.

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Gaps Appear in State, Federal Test Scores

Seeded on Sat Mar 4, 2006 7:45 PM EST (The Washington Post)

A quote from the article points at the fact that we are, in fact, dumbing-down learning for our students: "It makes you question whether the definition of 'proficiency' anyplace is anchored in real-world demands."

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