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...recently hosted Sex Trivia Night, organized by Harvard Law Students for Reproductive Rights. The event featured free condoms, food, and drinks—all the ingredients necessary for a debauched night. Eager to participate, this writer made his way to the sign-up sheet and was happily surprised to find condoms gingerly sprinkled around the table...
...People are hurting, and they’re angry and they’re frustrated, and still our government can’t find the will to act in the best interest of children and families,” Albano added...
...month later, Ethan's mom paid him $200. He went out and bought a TV, the biggest one he could find...
...find out, a Harvard economist named Roland Fryer Jr. did something education researchers almost never do: he ran a randomized experiment in hundreds of classrooms in multiple cities. He used mostly private money to pay 18,000 kids a total of $6.3 million and brought in a team of researchers to help him analyze the effects. He got death threats, but he carried on. The results, which he shared exclusively with TIME, represent the largest study of financial incentives in the classroom - and one of the more rigorous studies ever on anything in education policy. (See Roland Fryer...
...early feedback was promising. Principals were lobbying to get their schools switched out of the control group and into the treatment group. Parents began using the paychecks as progress reports, contacting teachers to find out why their kids' checks had gone up or down. In Chicago, Duncan discovered that the program affected kids in ways he'd never expected. "I remember going to schools and seeing how excited the kids were when they got their checks. They were like pep rallies - but around academic success!" he says. Fryer appeared on The Colbert Report and CNN to talk about the experiment...