Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Schools Matter: Generation of High Stakes Testing Produces the Next Generation of White Collar Thieves

Schools Matter: Generation of High Stakes Testing Produces the Next Generation of White Collar Thieves

Generation of High Stakes Testing Produces the Next Generation of White Collar Thieves

The School of Business at U. of Central Florida has a testing center that is as secure and as intrusive as a Vegas casino. The age of "accountability" has produced a generation of cheats, along with a policing system that will forever be trying to catch up with the cheating technology. The only people benefiting are the tech companies. Imagine that. From NYTimes:
ORLANDO, Fla. — The frontier in the battle to defeat student cheating may be here at the testing center of the University of Central Florida.
No gum is allowed during an exam: chewing could disguise a student’s speaking into a hands-free