By TRIP GABRIEL, New York Times
Mississippi had a problem born of the age of soaring student testing and digital technology. High school students taking the state’s end-of-year exams were using cellphones to text one another the answers. With more than 100,000 students tested, proctors could not watch everyone — not when some teenagers can text with their phones in their pockets. So the state called in a company that turns technology against the cheats: it analyzes answer sheets by computer and flags those with so many of the same questions wrong or right that the chances of random agreement are astronomically small.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/28/education/28cheat.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
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