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...cited a study by Craig W. Haney, a psychology professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, that found that after months or years of complete isolation, many prisoners “begin to lose the ability to initiate behavior of any kind—to organize their own lives around activity and purpose...
...Washington, middle schoolers would be paid for a portfolio of five different metrics, including attendance and good behavior. If they hit perfect marks in every category, they could make $100 every two weeks. Schools in Dallas got the simplest scheme and the one targeting the youngest children: every time second-graders read a book and successfully completed a computerized quiz about it, they earned $2. Straightforward - and cheap. The average earning would turn out to be about $14 (for seven books read) per year...
...Washington, the kids did better on standardized reading tests. Getting paid on a routine basis for a series of small accomplishments, including attendance and behavior, seemed to lead to more learning for those kids. And in Dallas, the experiment produced the most dramatic gains of all. Paying second-graders to read books significantly boosted their reading-comprehension scores on standardized tests at the end of the year - and those kids seemed to continue to do better the next year, even after the rewards stopped...
...their behavior is also consistent with a desire to appear reasonable, maintain the illusion of good-faith negotiations and insulate themselves from charges of carrying the industry's water when the negotiations fall apart. We saw this movie during health care. And if you focus on the fundamentals - political and substantive - instead of the latest Washington kabuki, the path to passage is a lot harder to envision than the path to oh-well-maybe-next-year. (See the top 10 health care reform...
...infection. These three simple things are the underlying causes of the majority of all the neonatal deaths in India," says van den Hombergh. Interestingly, during the Ekjut Trial, as it is called, attendance at natal clinics and other health facilities did not rise by much. What changed was behavior in the home.(Read 'Can One Pill Tame the Illness No One Wants to Talk About...