Summary of "should kids be bribed to do well in school"
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In the article, ?Should Kids Be Bribed to Do Well in School?? by Amanda Ripley, she describes the lengths one man went to see the effectiveness of bribing kids to do well in school. His experiments were largely controversial, but he continued despite what others said. Teachers complained that we are rewarding kids for doing what they should be doing just from their own will. Psychologists claimed that money and rewards can actually make kids perform worse by ?cheapening the act of learning?. Roland Fryer Jr., a Harvard economist had to find out what really works. He ran a randomized experiment in hundreds of classrooms in multiple cities which is something education researchers almost never do.
