[Edling] Why Would a Teacher Cheat?

[Francis Hult]

The Atlantic



Why Would a Teacher Cheat?



Deceptive scoring practices can be found in schools across the country, and they seem to be growing in popularity in an era that places heavy emphasis on standardized testing. But rarely do those practices involve the kind of cheating that happened in Atlanta, where teachers were caught erasing and changing students’ answers. Instead, they’re typically a lot more subtle—a teacher turning a blind eye to a few errors, for example, or grading an open-ended response leniently—and a lot less selfish. And it turns out that this kind of manipulation might even benefit kids.



Full story:
http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2016/04/why-teachers-cheat/480039/
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