Teachers and administrators are actually incentivized to cheat. And sometimes even the students are in on it. Yesterday: 23 schools penalized for helping cheat

Teachers and administrators are actually incentivized to cheat. And sometimes even the students are in on it. Yesterday: 23 schools penalized for helping cheat tests http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2012/10/29/schools-stripped-of-key-ranking-after-reports-of-cheating-other-irregularities/ http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2012/10/29/schools-stripped-o... Last March: the head of the School District's test security program reported more than a dozen testing violations at the school. http://thenotebook.org/blog/125270/wagner-cheating-follow http://thenotebook.org/blog/125270/wagner-cheating-follow Last Year: America's biggest teacher and principal cheating scandal unfolds in Atlanta http://news.yahoo.com/americas-biggest-teacher-principal-cheating-scandal-unfolds-atlanta-213734183.html http://news.yahoo.com/americas-biggest-teacher-principal-che... http://onpoint.wbur.org/2011/07/11/teachers-cheating-in-schools http://onpoint.wbur.org/2011/07/11/teachers-cheating-in-scho... I remember hearing about a school where the teachers assigned a letter to each corner of the room and would stand in the corner of the room that corresponded to the correct answer to each question. In Atlanta they were having "grading parties" where teachers were getting together on the weekend to erase incorrect answers and fill in the correct ones. They got sloppy.