Cheating
Baseball Doping Scandal Sends Ripples to Latin America
It wasn’t just A-Rod. Monday’s suspensions handed out by Major League Baseball involve 12 other players, all from Latin America. Three are from Venezuela. Anchor Aaron Schachter speaks with Alfredo Villasmil, a sports writer for Venezuela’s Ultimas Noticias newspaper, to hear about reaction to the Biogenesis doping scandal there.
Ivan Fernandez Anaya, Gentleman Runner from Spain, Allows Fellow Competitor to Win
Cheating in sports has dominated the news since American cyclist Lance Armstrong confessed to years of doping. His dishonesty casts a shadow over an entire sport, but as The World’s Gerry Hadden reports from Barcelona, good guys can finish first.
Education Week: Why Teachers Sometimes Cheat
It’s back to school season, and all week long we’re talking about education in America, and schools under pressure – with budgets decreasing, and the pressure to raise student achievement increasing. Today our subject is cheating teachers; specifically, those who’ve altered their students’ work or taken other measures to help them score higher on standardized tests. […]
Report Shows Atlanta Teachers Cheated to Improve Test Scores
Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal has just released a report that named principals and teachers in Atlanta’s public schools who had been modifying tests and tampering with answers to improve results. Kim Severson of The New York Times, brings us the latest.