Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Want to stop teachers from cheating? A history lesson from corporate America

This piece is part of a leadership roundtable on the right way to approach teacher incentives ? with opinion pieces by Duke University behavioral economics professor Dan Ariely, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, Harvard Graduate School of Education professor Howard Gardner, and Washington Post columnist Steven Pearlstein.

In recent years there seems to have been a surge in academic dishonesty across many high schools. No doubt this can be explained in part by increased vigilance and reporting, greater pressure on students to succeed, and the communicable nature of dishonest behavior (when people see others do something, whether it?s tweaking a resume or parking illegally, they?re more likely to do the same).

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