This week’s Gadfly is ready to be read. In the top slot, I write about why paying students (bribing them, really—let’s call it what it is) to study and attend class is a terrible idea. Some say, “Why not try it out? Why not experiment?” I say, “Schools are not Petri dishes, and experiments have consequences.” Like Frankenstein’s monster, or Spam. Elsewhere in the issue, Mike notes that we should quit resisting online education, and we comment on Florida’s voucher setback, the Republicans’ NCLB discord, and the governor of Alaska, who, we’re told, has completed the Iditarod—without using dogs or a sled. She jogged.