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Black Harvard Prof Accepts Racial Differences
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Giving Students Cash for Grades
While growing up in Daytona Beach, Fla., Roland Fryer unders
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Giving Students Cash for Grades
While growing up in Daytona Beach, Fla., Roland Fryer understood the benefits of becoming the best basketball player or the fastest track athlete in the school. Those individuals could hope to one day compete in the NBA and the Olympics. But what Fryer did not understand at the time were the benefits of becoming a good student, and he suspects many other students in cities across the nation now are just as unaware as he was then.
To help these largely poor, minority students comprehend the value of working hard in class, Fryer has partnered with administrators in three urban school districts to offer students money in return for their classroom achievement. Students of randomly selected elementary, middle, and high schools in Chicago, Washington, and New York City can earn hundreds or thousands of dollars in a single school year just for being good students. Fryer hopes these short-term rewards can convince these kids of the long-term benefits of academic success.
Fryer is a professor of economics at Harvard University and in January of this year became the youngest African-American to receive tenure at the nation's top institution for higher education. He also serves as CEO and lead researcher for the Education Innovation Laboratory (EdLabs), a $44 million, three-year research and development institute that focuses on fostering innovation and collecting objective measurements of the effectiveness of urban K-12 school district programs and practices.
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In other words, a black Ivy League professor is inherently accepting the notion that black youths are generally too impulsive and ignorant about delayed gratification to understand that there is a future benefit of doing well in school. This is yet another confirmation of the findings in the "one cookie now versus five cookies tomorrow" test.
The big flaw in his plan is that black inner city school systems are highly prone to grade inflation and course title inflation. Beyond that, I could imagine that teachers will swing deals with students to grant good grades in exchange for a cut of the cash.
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