NHR: Rewarding Homework

Guidence Counselor Ronald Byrd wanted to encourage seventh-grade students to do their homework, so he came up with a reward system for them, and on Monday gave out the largest reward: a bicycle, the New Haven Register reports.

An assembly was held Monday at the school to distribute the rewards to the students who "completing their homework assignments over 45 days during the third marking period in at least one of the core subjects: mathematics, social studies, science and English," according to the Register's report, which includes a video.