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
Reid Hoffman posted some reflections on Greylock’s investment in Airbnb.
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.
