Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20100408:14:40:00
Should school bribe kids. it can work if it's done right. joining me is the author of the story, amanda riply. what did the study show? >> it was fascinating. it showed that paying kids to learn totally depends on what you pay them to do in the short term. in new york city where they paid kids $1.5 million to 8,000 kids to get better test scores, nothing happened. and then in dallas where they paid second graders $2 for every book they read if they pass aid computerized quiz about the book, you saw really phenomenal results. those kids' reading test scores at the end the year went up quite a b...
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