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1. Roland Fryer's plan to offer cash for learning is moving forward slowly but surely.
2. The NetFlix prize is moving forward slowly but surely.
3. Greg Mankiw was almost a philosopher but decided the money was better in economics and almost a lawyer but decided the money wasn't worth the boredom. Clearly, Greg made good choices.
Posted by Alex Tabarrok on June 11, 2007 at 04:33 PM in Economics | Permalink
Comments
Link #1 and #2 are identical, both leading to the cash for learning article.
Posted by: US at Jun 11, 2007 4:58:35 PM
Your NetFlix prize link is wrong.
Posted by: Mike KP at Jun 11, 2007 4:59:50 PM
I wonder if the quoted educators who think higher pay won't affect student achievement also believe that higher pay won't affect teachers' achievements. i'm guessing not.
Posted by: DK at Jun 11, 2007 5:20:36 PM
Link fixed. Thanks.
Posted by: Alex Tabarrok at Jun 11, 2007 5:41:12 PM
its nice to see greg mankiw and tyler stick up for Rorty. I can't think of another philosopher who has Rorty's influence outside of philosophy departments.
Posted by: thehova at Jun 11, 2007 5:43:57 PM
Bah! Pay for content link. S**** the NYT. ;-)
Posted by: Matthew at Jun 11, 2007 10:13:07 PM
From the look of his economics Mankiw would have been a horrible philosopher.
Posted by: PrestoPundit at Jun 11, 2007 10:49:48 PM
You'd be surprised how fun it can be to be a lawyer. Math skills enervate, true, but you would get over that. What is fun is residing in the alley between policy maker’s objectives and earthy humanity. Every day is a case study in the nature of humans and human organization, of individual liberty and choice vs. majoritarian authority, its exercise and its construction. Not just government vs. individual, but individual investors vs. a group of investors, or employers vs employees and so on. The conflict is endless and endlessly interesting.
And don’t sniff at the money, its nice.
Posted by: guy in the veal calf office at Jun 12, 2007 12:07:34 PM
I have to doubt that the incentives proposed ($25 or $50 dollars) are anything close to high enough to encourage any meaningful effort on doing enough learning to improve one's performance on a standardized test.
Posted by: patrick at Jun 12, 2007 3:28:10 PM
Cash for learning...I've heard of some people who do that sometimes...employers, maybe.
Posted by: Deymond at Jun 13, 2007 1:24:40 AM
