Clarence D. Mumford Sr., a former teacher and assistant principal in Memphis, was sentenced Monday to seven years in federal prison for orchestrating a scheme to help teachers cheat on certification exams.
The latest Chicago laureate, James Heckman, has shown how $11,000 spent on a poor child can save $75,000 in prison costs later, while Professor Steven Levitt has done work on how teachers cheat in school tests (wryly described in his book Freakonomics).
Yesterday, American Public Media Marketplace's Kai Ryssdal talked to Freakonomics Radio's Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt about why teachers cheat and how to deal with the issue.
Chris Dafoe of The Globe and Mail opined that "Abused by fellow students and teachers, cheated on by his girlfriend, despised by society, Shady goes over the top now and then - or rather way over the top - but Dre's lean production, full of strange voice and comic interjections, hold things together".
In another intimate scene, I spied a teacher cheating on standardized tests.
The teacher cheating scandal in Atlanta that was uncovered this year has rocked the country and cast a national spotlight on educators and standardized testing.
In a video interview Wednesday with 11Alive News, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said he was "stunned" when he learned of the teacher cheating scandal in Atlanta Public Schools.
Schools in Virginia, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and California, among others, have since uncovered security breaches or testing irregularities by educators and are now seeking to implement preventative measures against teacher cheating.
Atlanta's revelation triggered a domino effect of analyses and investigations across the country, leading to numerous discoveries of teacher cheating scandals in areas spanning from Atlanta's neighboring Dougherty County to Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Washington D.C. and California, among others.
