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Article: Negative rewards for positive behaviors.(Point of View)
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- Phi Delta Kappan
- Article date:
- December 1, 1995
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The Paradox of Our Profession
We educators have perpetuated a practice that works against the excellence we say we want in our schools, the authors point out. We can continue on our course and reap the consequences, or we can reverse course and rethink the preparation of administrators.
In reflecting on and discussing our experiences in public schools over a combined total of 50 years of teaching and administrative service, we realized that we both continue to be amazed by a curious feature of the education profession that educators know about and frequently discuss - but continue to perpetuate nonetheless. Whether engaged in deliberately or not, the act of ...