Title: Individual Assignment for Making Mental Summaries
Course: Reading Summer School

Choosing one of the two mental summary methods, read the following paragraphs from the Time magazine "Should Schools Bribe Kids," and write a summary following your chosen format.

The results began to trickle into the lab last summer. In New York City, the $1.5 million paid to 8,320 kids for good test scores did not work - at least not in any way that's easy to measure. In Chicago, under a different model, the kids who earned money for grades attended class more often and got better grades, two major accomplishments. Those students did not, however, do better on their standardized tests at the end of the year.

In Washington, the kids did better on standardized reading tests. Getting paid on a routine basis for a series of small accomplishments, including attendance and behavior, seemed to lead to more learning for those kids. And in Dallas, the experiment produced the most dramatic gains of all. Paying second-graders to read books significantly boosted their reading-comprehension scores on standardized tests at the end of the year. Those kids seemed to continue to do better the next year, even after the rewards stopped. (Ripley, 2010 p. 45).

Ripley, A. (April 19, 2010). Is cash the answer?. Time. 175: 15.