I'll have time to sleep when I get to New Orleans
In super exam mode here. I have to write 2 20 page papers this weekend. No big deal. This just happened: I'm working on this one about monetary incentive programs to increase student achievement, writing about intrinsic and extrinsic motivation in middle schoolers, when I start paying attention to what's on shuffle on itunes and hear these lyrics from "Longview": "I've got no motivation, where is my motivation?" How appropriate! Looks like Billy Joe should've received some external incentives when he was in school. J/k, actually, he probably received inappropriate external incentives and that's what got him in this whole mess of diminished motivation in the first place.
Anyway, I'm examining certain cases of incentive programs that pay kids for getting good grades and stuff, and it's pretty crazy. It's like when rich parents bribe their children to get good grades, except brought to scale on a district level and with poor children. What I want to know is how bad are these children going to freak the fuck when they get to the 11th grade (most of the programs go no further than 10th grade) and no longer are receiving biweekly paychecks for doing well/behaving. Are they going to have a mass protest by failing and behaving awfully? Or do you think high achievement will be ingrained by then and they'll figure "I got this far, might as well round out my high school career with good grades"?
Anyway, I'm examining certain cases of incentive programs that pay kids for getting good grades and stuff, and it's pretty crazy. It's like when rich parents bribe their children to get good grades, except brought to scale on a district level and with poor children. What I want to know is how bad are these children going to freak the fuck when they get to the 11th grade (most of the programs go no further than 10th grade) and no longer are receiving biweekly paychecks for doing well/behaving. Are they going to have a mass protest by failing and behaving awfully? Or do you think high achievement will be ingrained by then and they'll figure "I got this far, might as well round out my high school career with good grades"?