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Why school leaders fake academic success

  • Written by Stephanie Jones, Assistant Professor of Education, Grinnell College
Several school systems have become engulfed in cheating scandals as of late. Is the pressure to boost school performance becoming too much?Lightspring/Shutterstock

At the beginning of each school year, before the students arrived, teachers from every school in the Atlanta Public Schools district were placed on school buses and taken to the old...

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