Responding to Incentives

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

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