Last year the education world was rocked by scandals in which teachers and school administrators cheated on state assessments for their students to boost their scores.

But here’s some proof that cheating to make a school look better happens at the college level, too: An unnamed senior administrator at Claremont McKenna College resigned after confessing that he has been falsifying SAT scores since 2005 to improve the school’s standing in rankings like that from U.S. News and World Report.

Read the whole story at NPR.

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