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Article: Rewarded by Punishment: Reflections on the Disuse of Positive Reinforcement in Schools.
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- Exceptional Children
- Article date:
- January 1, 2001
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Perhaps no other discipline has received as much criticism from various factions of society as has public education. This statement should come as no surprise because public education has always been a convenient political whipping post for some fanatical ideologues to explain a variety of social ills (Reid, 1997). Criticisms often resonate with the public because many of them cannot be disproven. For example, there is no way to refute the contention that "education has failed" because it is inconceivable to experimentally test this belief by forming two groups of children--a treatment group that receives education and a control group that does not receive education. ...