Fifth graders told they would be graded on how well they learned a social studies lesson had more trouble understanding the main point of the text than did those who were told that no grades would be involved.
Golnick and Ryan (1987)

Sharon MacKenzie

Honour for First Wind-powered School

A village primary school has brought a new sense of pride to a former mining community devastated by a pit closure. The 107-pupil Cassop Primary School in Durham has become the first in the UK to be wind-powered through a wind turbine located in the school grounds. It also became the first to win an award for the country’s greenest school as part of the prestigious National Teaching Awards – screened live on BBC2.

Read [[http://news.independent.co.uk/education/education_news/article3084321.ece|full article]]

(Source: The Independent, UK) (22 October 2007)

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