{"id":96209,"date":"2025-07-24T14:55:25","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T18:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=96209"},"modified":"2025-07-24T14:55:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T18:55:25","slug":"50-a-week-for-40-weeks-how-no-strings-cash-changed-the-lives-of-teens-morton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2025\/07\/24\/50-a-week-for-40-weeks-how-no-strings-cash-changed-the-lives-of-teens-morton\/","title":{"rendered":"$50 a week for 40 weeks: How no-strings cash changed the lives of teens [Morton]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hechingerreport.org\/50-a-week-for-40-weeks-how-no-strings-cash-changed-the-lives-of-teens\/?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>$50 a week for 40 weeks: How no-strings cash changed the lives of teens<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from hechingerreport.org by Neal Morton<br \/>\n<em>A cash transfer program for high schoolers resulted in better attendance and more financial literacy, but no improvement in grades<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cThe $50 study,\u201d as it\u2019s known, began at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rootedschool.org\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rooted School<\/a>, a local charter school, as an experiment to increase attendance. The study has since grown to eight other high schools in the city, as well as Rooted\u2019s sister campus in Indianapolis, with students randomly selected to receive $50 every week for 40 weeks, or $2,000 total. By comparing their spending and savings habits to a larger control group, researchers wanted to figure out whether the money improved a teen\u2019s financial capability and perception of themselves. They also wanted to know: Could the cash boost their grade-point averages and reading scores?<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">An interesting experiment.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>$50 a week for 40 weeks: How no-strings cash changed the lives of teens &#8212; from hechingerreport.org by Neal Morton A cash transfer program for high schoolers resulted in better attendance and more financial literacy, but no improvement in grades \u201cThe $50 study,\u201d as it\u2019s known, began at\u00a0Rooted School, a local charter school, as an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[343,141,533,121,419,180,119,46,102,7,838,66,321,445],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-engagement-engaging-students","category-experimentation","category-face-to-face","category-ideas-teaching","category-innovation","category-instructional-design","category-k-12-related","category-learning","category-learning-ecosystem","category-learning-experience-design","category-student-related","category-united-states","category-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96210,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96209\/revisions\/96210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}