[Edu-sig] looking for references

[John Zelle]

Barry Schwartz's book, The Cost of Living: How Market Freedom Erodes the
Best Things in Life, has a chapter titled "The Debasing of Education:
Turning Play into Work" that summarizes various evidence and makes a
similar argument along these lines.


On Sat, 2008-07-26 at 10:11 -0500, Daniel Ajoy wrote:
> > I am looking for a study I used to know which demonstrated that
> > the introduction of a grading scheme had a damaging effect on the
> > ability of educators to actually teach students.  Anybody got
> > some references lying around?
> > 
> > Laura
> 
> 
> Punished by rewards
> 
> 
> Daniel
> 
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