Show me the money.

• Position: STATELINE - Brief article

A school district in a small, working class city in central Ohio is taking part in an unusual experiment to pay students for doing well on state exams. Pupils in grades three through six earn $15 for every "proficient" score and $20 for "advanced" scores. Coshocton schools are now in the third year of the experiment, which is being conducted by a researcher from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. Preliminary results look promising. "Even if we can raise the scores a little bit, it's beneficial to the...