According to the New York Post, anyway. Paying students for good test scores brought a lot of controversey, but also brought an increase of up to forty percent in grades. The program paid seventh graders up to $500 and fourth graders up to $250 for improving their scores on a total of 10 assessments.
The gains at individual schools were significant. For instance, the Post article says:
At MS 343 in The Bronx, 94 percent of seventh-graders met or surpassed state standards in math this year -- 37.3 points higher than last year, when the students were sixth-graders.
I still feel a little icky over paying students to do what they apparently could have been doing all along.
(H/T Joanne Jacobs)
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