Can contests improve education?
Quickie: the Freakonomics blog relates a story about a collaboration between the Association of Private Enterprise Education and the Market-Based Management Institute to create a $17,500 ($10k, 5k and 2.5k for 1st, 2nd and 3rd) prize fund for great teaching / communication of concepts in economics
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