Samuel Eshaghoff, a 19-year-old sophomore at Emory University, was recently arrested for taking SAT tests for six New York high schoolers. The college student allegedly charged as much as $2,500 every time he masqueraded as a test-taking high schooler; but while Eshaghoff claims he’s not guilty and SAT officials say he’s an isolated wrongdoer, many education experts worry that other teens may be hiring folks to take the test for them. “As tests have become higher-stakes tests, as the competition between kids for scholarships and college entrance has increased, the likelihood of kids looking for ways to beat the system—to cheat—has increased,” says Henry Grisham, superintendent of Jericho Public Schools in Long Island. Part of the problem, according to some, is that there really aren’t very many incentives not to cheat. When the SAT folks notice irregularities in a test, they simply notify the student that their scores are being thrown out, but there’s no reason why the student can’t simply take (and potentially cheat on) the test again; and high schools or colleges never are notified. (New York Times)