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Conversation too welcome two books in review
Our guess today is john banks the author of the best selling new book
Rewarding success glad to be hedging
Your book has sold two million copies
But before we discuss why it's getting so much attention
Let's talk about your background
You're an economist and spend two decades teaching at universities
I spent twenty five years as a professor actually
And then for the last ten years i've worked as a political consultant
Advising politicians at the national level about problems in our country
You discuss three of those problems in the book
Improving public education
Reducing our nations health care burden and increasing personal savings
But your ideas about education are the most controversial absolutely a lot of people think i'm trying to punish students who a't doing well when actually my goal is to get all students more incensive susuceceed
I'm not sure
I agree with you
Your proposal to pay cash rewards to students who get good grades is a particular problem
What about students who don't get good grades
It seems like you're blaming them for not succeeding when poor performance in school isn't a child's fault
But my proposal is not just to reward students with good grades
But also students who show improvements okay
Another criticism of the plane is the cash rewards themselves
Where will the money come from if students do better
We'll spend less less on schooling
So in the end the rewards will pay for themselves
What about now
How will we find the rewards in the meantime well by increasing taxes or moving money from other areas of the budgets into education questions twelve to fifteen are based on the conversation
You have just heard question twelve
What do we learn about them in question thirteen
What does the woman say is the most controversial question
Fourteen
What does the man say is his real goal
被告人听有了questioned fifteen
What will be one option for funding the proposed rewards
According to the man
