Blog 12: SAT cheating Scandal

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/28/education/after-cheating-scandal-sat-and-act-will-tighten-security.html?ref=education

According to the article by Anderson, cheating scandal by 12 students forces the whole nation to make changes to submitting a photo on their admission ticket. This will allow proctors for the SAT to compare picture ID's with their photo on their admission tickets. It started in Nassau County and district attorney, Kathleen Rice, and said that up to 50 students would be involved. Superintendents and principals have been in favor of making these changes for more than a decade. Anderson stated that it took an incident such as cheating for these changes to come into effect, and they will also have to provide their gender and age. Students were paid anywhere from $500-$3600 to take the test for someone else. In one incident a male student had been arrested for taking the test for a gender-neutral name and providing fake identification. Another one of the rules being made to the SAT and ACT is standby registration. Students were able to register the day of for the SAT, thus making it easier to provide fake ID's.

This is a social global issue because students across the world are trying to get around taking standardized testing, and providing fake identification. Getting into universities across the globe are becoming more and more competitive and students who compete around the testing system are not being honest with themselves and the Universities. Education everywhere is important not only in beginning and middle grades, but especially for higher levels. Many people who have become doctors, lawyers, teachers have worked hard to get where they are today and when students today provide false identification they are eliminating their chances of becoming someone. I believe that the government needs to step up and provide careful observation on students taking standardized tests everywhere because students will always find a way to get around doing something they don't have to do.