Daily Archive for December 9th, 2008

In “Gates Foundation to study ‘cash for grades’: Organization will analyze whether incentive payments to low-income college students are effective,” Gale Holland of the Los Angeles (CA, US) Times reported that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will fund a large-scale study of whether cash payments to low-income college students improves outcomes.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is throwing its weight behind the trend to offer “cash for grades” to keep low-income students in college, despite protests from some quarters that such incentive payments amount to little more than bribery.
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