work: i know roland frye's very well at harvard. do you think that is something we ought to try at this -- try in this country, compensating students for their work? >> i definitely think it is something we have to think about as a nation. when we started this initiative in d.c., one of the things we heard from people, and i got a lot of e-mails and letters from people. i remember one person saying it is a sad day when you have to pay children to do what they are supposed to be doing anyway. i said yesterday was a bad day, when we had 8% of our grade levels -- of our eighth graders on level in mathematics and were not trying to think about different solutions to try to overcome those significantly poorer results. the bottom line is if you look out in the suburbs, in fairfax county, in montgomery county, our neighbors in d.c., kids get rewards and incentives all the time. you bring home a great report card and get a shiny red convertible on your 15th birthday. you get taken out to dinner. we really felt like the situation that many o