Posted on April 16, 2008 at 11:06 am by Mike Petrilli
AP pay shows promise
Liam thinks that if paying students to pass AP tests worked, “wouldn’t we know it by now?” Yes, we would, and we do, and it does.
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April 17th, 2008 at 5:16 am
The mismatch between blue-collar culture and academic culture explains much of the income-related performance gap (and therefore, race-related performance gap) in US schools. School is designed by academics, that is, by people who are good at school. Schools currently give to many students no reason to do what schools require. Compulsory, unpaid labor is slavery; black or white, male or female, young or old.
Students will work for freedom. If school is not an employment program for dues-paying members of the NEA/AFT/AFSCME cartel, a source of padded contracts for politically-connected insiders, and a venue for State-worshipful indoctrination, why cannot any student take, at any age, an exit exam (the GED will do) and apply the taxpayers’ age 6-18 education subsidy toward post-secondary tuition or toward a wage subsidy at any qualified private-sector employer?
Even if legislators reserve the taxpayers’ K-12 education subsidy for public-sector workers and insist that students remain institutionalized for 12 years, students will work for the freedom to use their time as they choose. A school which offered credit-by-exam at any time during the school year for all required courses would see performance undreamed of today from students who would spend their free time as they preferred, in Auto Shop, in the library, or running around the track.