Classic study with implications for merit pay and other incentive schemes: Kids who were offered a reward for tutoring successfully became impatient and ultimately less effective: https://t.co/OrpoB5t0ug
The premise of merit pay, and indeed of all rewards, is that people *could* be doing a better job but have perversely refused to do so until it’s bribed out of them.
Seventh- and eighth-graders in areas that favored President Trump were 9 percent more likely to report that kids at their schools were teased because of their race or ethnicity, according to a new study. https://t.co/WMuMHtmTXi