Think back to when you were in elementary school. In between doing all the dittos and spelling tests and times tables, there were specials (and aptly named, too). Nothing was quite as exciting as the gleeful anticipation of putting on your smock for art class or pulling out the wooden recorders for music. And when [...]
Scholar Says Standardized Tests Don’t Accurately Grade Black Students
August 17, 2012 | Posted by
In recent years, harrowing statistics regarding the aptitude of black students in America have been run through the media with alarming frequency. In 2010, the New York Times reported that only 12 percent of black fourth-grade boys were proficient in reading, compared to 38 percent of white boys. Those figures came from a study produced [...]
Paying Students Cash Can Improve Academic Performance
June 20, 2012 | Posted by
There is a way to use rewards to improve student performance on standardized tests: Pay them cold cash! That was the conclusion of a fascinating study on youngsters and the power of rewards done by Stephen D. Levitt, author of the instant classic, Freakonomics, and several other researchers who ventured into the Chicago public schools [...]
