Is Education Reform Encouraging Cheating? - International Business Times: "Now, there is mounting evidence that this focus on accountability may have backfired.
In New York City, where Mayor Michael Bloomberg has made tying performance bonuses and decisions about which schools to close to test scores a centerpiece of his education policy, an investigation by Special Commissioner of Investigation Richard Condon revealed that allegations of teachers tampering with test scores has steadily risen in recent years. Speaking to The New York Times, Condon explicitly faulted education policies that placed outsize emphasis on rigid metrics for progress.
"When you start giving money to the schools to do well, that's another incentive to appear to do well if you are not doing well," Condon said. "If a lot of the evaluation is based on how the students do, that's an incentive for the teachers to try to help the students do well, even in ways that are unacceptable.""
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