Rewards: How to use rewards to help children learn - and why teachers don't use them well

Herbert J. Walberg; Joseph L. Bast

ISBN 10: 1934791385 / ISBN 13: 9781934791387

Published by The Heartland Institute, 2014

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Rewards: How to use rewards to help children learn - and why teachers don't use them well
• Publisher: The Heartland Institute
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1934791385
• ISBN 13: 9781934791387
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Weight: 0.5 pounds

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Synopsis

Years of fad education strategies have left us with a public education system that largely rejects the tried-and-true method of using rewards to spur student achievement.

This book shows how rewards motivate students to learn and how their appropriate use accelerates learning. For some readers this merely confirms the ancient commonsense view that "incentives matter." Children seek praise from adults and strive to win in competitions with their peers while adults work harder for recognition, raises, promotions, and other rewards.

About the Author

Herbert J. Walberg, a distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution and a member of the Koret Task Force on K-12 Education, taught for thirty-five years at Harvard and the University of Illinois at Chicago. Author or editor of more than sixty books, he has written extensively for educational and psychological scholarly journals on measuring and raising student achievement and human accomplishments. His most recent book is Tests, Testing, and Genuine School Reform (Hoover Institution Press, 2011). He was appointed a member of the National Assessment Governing Board and the National Board for Educational Sciences and a fellow of several scholarly groups, including the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the International Academy of Education, and the Royal Statistical Society. He chairs the Beck Foundation and the Heartland Institute.

 

Joseph Bast is president and CEO of The Heartland Institute, a 30-year-old national nonprofit research center located in Chicago, Illinois. His writing has appeared in Phi Delta Kappan, Economics of Education Review, Independent Review, Journal of Private Enterprise, The Cato Journal, Wall Street Journal, Investor's Business Daily, USA Today, and many of the country's largest-circulation newspapers. He has been profiled in feature articles appearing in Nature, The Nation, and E&E News.