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...order to honor the team’s youngest freshman with victories in the first of the weekend's two doubleheaders, the Crimson (8-15, 2-2 Ivy) will have to hold off a Penn squad that is one of two Ivy teams with a 3-1 conference record...
...Keuper and Harvard deliver, the team may be able to celebrate its youngest teammate with victory...
...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...
...also help that the kids in Dallas were the youngest in the experiment, making them more receptive to reforms. It's hard to know for sure. Another caveat is that the Dallas model worked differently on different kids. Most (including Hispanic kids and poor kids) did better when they were being paid. But the ones who spoke very little English and took their standardized tests in Spanish did not benefit from the incentives, a mystery that Fryer addresses at some length in his study but cannot entirely explain. (See pictures of Detroit schoolkids sharing their dreams for the future...
Their new roles as House Masters will enable the couple to further connect with the youngest students at Harvard—and they can’t wait to begin...