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

Read the full article here.

 

 

http://news.yahoo.com/atlanta-schools-created-culture-cheating-fear-130521276.html

Related

In 1982 Lenny Skutnik became the first to be invited

Love this release. MEMS are hot and this is too.

Over the last two days I’ve been attending and speaking