Rhee's education incentives

The mayor of Washington, DC, Democrat Adrian Fenty, appointed a policy innovator to run the DC school system. DC is famous for having some of the worst performing students and schools in the nation, while also spending more per pupil than most other districts. Rhee has overcome huge bureaucratic obstacles to implement some exciting incentive-based reforms:

Last week, D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee unveiled a pilot program in which middle school students will be paid to meet academic and behavioral goals. Starting in October, 3,000 students -- half of the middle school population -- will be able to earn as much as $100 every two weeks (officials expect the average will be $50 every two weeks) as part of a $2.7 million program being offered with Harvard University. 

Hat tip: WaPo.

My question: Why aren't there more experiments like this?  Whether it works or not, it seems to me that the path to progress in education is having entrepreneurial districts not national standards, or to have empowered teachers not accredited teachers, or to have education markets not education mandates.

Comments

[Mark]

How about because incentives work in both ways. What next? Do we pay kids to dress neatly for interviews? To brush their teeth? To run?

If kids have to be paid to practice behavior from which they essentially internalize the benefits, what incentive do they have to do other things from which they internalize little benefits, such as painting their homes, or mowing their grass, or wiping themselves, etc.?

[Charles Johnson]

Unfortunately, we know that much of the data from NY and NYC cannot be trusted due to the score inflation that's occurred. Pay schemes don't seem to have any actual evidence that justifies the expenditures. It is far time for instructionist reform and for refusing to see inner city youths as damsels in distress, uncapable of achievement without bribery.

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