The perverse problem with No Child Left Behind like incentive structures:
Teachers spent nights huddled in a back room, erasing wrong answers on students’ test sheets and filling in the correct bubbles. At another school, struggling students were seated next to higher-performing classmates so they could copy answers
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http://news.yahoo.com/atlanta-schools-created-culture-cheating-fear-130521276.html
Since the election, the Fiscal Cliff as dominated the media
The demand for “metrics” is increasing. At the same time,
Dr. Shawn DuBravac is author of the New York Times Best Seller Digital Destiny: How the New Age of Data Will Transform the Way We Work, Live, and Communicate, which explores how the world’s mass adoption of digital technologies portends the beginning of a new era for humanity in the realms of business, healthcare, finance, transportation and culture.
