The AP (10/8) reports, "Selected Oklahoma City Public Schools students will receive free cell phones and minutes as part of a Harvard University economist's research into academic motivation." For the study, "1,500 local middle-school students" would "receive the phones Friday." Over a nine-month period, "the students will receive free phones and can earn minutes in exchange for academic success." The AP notes that "Harvard economist Roland Fryer has conducted similar experiments in a handful of other urban school systems, using money instead of phones as the incentive."
Have we become so complacent in our affluence that learning for the sake of learning must be rewarded?
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It seems like the old 'take out the trash or make your bed in order to receive an allowance' kind of incentivization.
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