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Article: Cash for school grades? It works.(Advanced Placement Incentive Program)(EDITORIAL)(Editorial)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- January 22, 2008
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The use of "pay for performance" - linking a financial reward to measurable goals - works in business. But can it also motivate underachieving students? Though cash may at first seem a perverse incentive for education, one study of such a practice shows some promising results.
Texas pays $500 to students in low-income, largely minority school districts who pass an exam for an Advanced Placement course. Known as the Advanced Placement Incentive Program (APIP), the practice has been around for more than a decade and has spread to a few other states.
What are the results so far?
Texas schools with APIP showed a 30 percent increase in the number of ...