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Show DAILY HERALD A6 Saturday. June U. 2008 Schools experiment with paying kids for good grades Nancy Zuckerbrod THE ASSOCIATED pess a school participating in the program, said the fourth- - and seventh-grader- s seem to be WASHINGTON working harder. She dismissed Friday those who say these kind of apis payday at KIPPDC: KEY proaches amount to bribery. Academy, and some sixth-grad-e "What is the difference begirls gather at the tween this and giving children makeshift school store trying an allowance as an incentive to decide how to spend their for doing their responsimoney. bilities?" she said, adding that because it reinforces to the , They received paychecks for behaving well, doing their students that our expectations many parents in her neighborhomework or making academ- of time on task are serious hood cannot afford to give kids ic gains. The money is pretend. and that you get rewarded for an allowance. "This program But it can be used at the store allowed our children to experithem," Hayes said. for genuine items such as pens ence what life is like when you Studies into the effects of school-basehave more to work with." rewards capped with fluffy feathers, Some question the long-terpencil cases shaped like aniprograms are limited. But remals and colorful erasers. search by an independent think impact of rewards programs. . Schools, under tank at Stanford University Edward Deri, a psychology-profess- or pressure to boost student achievement, at the University of indicated they can raise scores. are offering incentives field A separate study examining Rochester in New York and schools in Ohio that paid kids an expert on motivation, said trips and cash, for example to motivate students. for passing state tests also rewards can persuade kids At KEY Academy, a public to work harder to boost test showed score gains after the scores. But he said that effect incentive program was encharter school serving probably would be short-liveminority students in the acted. In New York, about 5,500 "Will their motivation to be nation's capital, Cherise Johnson Wallace proudly clutched students can earn money for doing their school work or learning be positively impacted getting good test scores. The school store. She was glad to program is open to fourth-graderby that once the rewards stop? I think the answer to that is who can earn up to have the trinketybut even happier about what it represented. $250 a year, and seventh-graderpretty clearly no," Deci said. He also said there is evi"It shows how I work very who can end the year with dence that once a reward is hard to earn good grades," $500 in the bank. "We'll soon give out over $1 taken away, people become she said, flashing a smile as she rattled off the A's she had million to fourth- - and seventh-grader- s even less motivated than they this year," said Roland were before the experiment earned. That kind of pride is what began, He said that is true reFryer, a Harvard University of economist the rewards proexperileading supporters gardless of the reward's value. He said schools must make ment. He said he is happy with grams point to. They say the the results so far. learning interesting, so chilprizes motivate kids at first, but thaMhe children eventually dren want to participate and Queen Makkada, president do well. form good study habits and be of the parents' association at . hard-earne- come interested in succeeding regardless of whether rewards are on the line. ( The charter school's principal, Sarah Hayes, is a believer. KEY Academy is among the schools, city's as judged by test scores. "I fhink a lot of that is tied back to our incentives program d d e, s, .. Fryer said more research is needed looking specifically at the effect of incentives in poor urban schools. He said it is so much more in difficult for fourth-grader- s those communities to see how education will pay off years down the road. "I just think we don't make any other kids in any other neighborhoods make that type of calculation," he said. Rewarding students is not new. Gold stars and pizza parties have been around for ages. But the new programs are more systematic. They are often available on a school-wid- e basis or throughout certain grades rather than just doled out by select teachers, many Dilland's H H The Style of Your y Life. Selection may vary by store. times with their own money. At KEY Academy, said ' Hayes, "You're not the teacher that has to go to the to buy the bubble gum to give to the kids on Friday." Today, money is more likely to be the prize offered than in the past, and it also is more likely to be tied to test scores. Testing has gained immense importance under the 2002 No Child Left Behind law, which imposes increasingly stiff penalties on schools that fail to hit annual testing goals. In addition to New York and Ohio, public schools in Balti- more and suburban Atlanta are among those that have experimented with incentive programs. In Ohio, one teacher hung Jake dollars from the ceiling, said Eric Bettinger, an economist who has studied that experiment. Others, he said, would shout 'Show me the money' to their students. "As a parent, I kind" of cringe," he said. But, he added, Dillard's has the sportswear Dad needs for all of his casual activities. He'll hit a home run with names such as Roundtree & Yorke, Daniel Cremieux, Nautica, Polo Ralph Lauren, Murano and more. ?) 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