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...We’re hoping that this will work, that you don’t need to essentially take money from special interests to be elected,” he said. “If that’s what it takes to be elected, I think that’s a sad indictment on the state of our electoral system...
...think that this is pretty retro. Jobs are so 20th century. Sweat’s for the gym, not for the workplace,” Trumka said. “For the lucky 10 percent of our society, that has been the reality. But for the rest of the country, economic reality has been something entirely different...
...profoundly uncomfortable. Teachers complain that we are rewarding kids for doing what they should be doing of their own volition. Psychologists warn that money can actually make kids perform worse by cheapening the act of learning. Parents predict widespread slacking after the incentives go away. And at least one think-tank scholar has denounced the strategy as racist. The debate has become a proxy battle for the larger war over why our kids are not learning at the rate they should be despite decades of reforms and budget increases...
...When I talked with Washington students, teachers and principals about the experiment, they appeared to have very low expectations for its long-term impact. Many of them, speaking from experience, seemed to think that nothing as simple as money could reach a certain hard core of kids. "The children we had challenges with before, we still have challenges with," says Vealetta Moore-Parker, a guidance counselor who runs the incentives program at Burroughs Education Campus...
...Fryer believes there's more good research to be done on incentives. But he doesn't think incentives alone can fix our schools; he is increasingly convinced that the answer will involve a combination of reforms and that the interaction among those reforms will matter more than any single change in isolation. And whatever we do, he says, we have to test it first - and fearlessly. "One thing we cannot do is, we cannot restrict ourselves to a set of solutions that make adults comfortable...