Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Portland Public Schools product value

The Willamette Week has the story on incentives to attend school for Marshall students. In the 2009 class of 100 - 34% dropped out. It had only 37% of on-time graduates.

The rationale: "Operating with the belief that rewarding good attendance is as important if not more important than punishing poor attendance, Marshall and District staff have developed a process to reward good or improved attendance."

When the educational product requires an incentive for "purchase," what does that say about the quality?

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