Teachers and/or School Administrators Cheat?
Dean Baker
Dean Baker is the co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research
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Washington Post reporter Jay Mathews had a column on former DC school chancellor Michelle Rhee's initial response to a USA Today article that find evidence of widespread cheating on the exam scores reported by one of the District's star schools. Ms. Rhee denounced the article and described the reporters who researched it as flat earthers who opposed school reform.
The next day Rhee apologized for her previous comments and acknowledged that there were important questions about the integrity of the test scores that need to be examined. Mathews praised Rhee's reversal and commented that:
"I sensed from my talk with Rhee that one reason she misspoke on Monday was that she had not had time to read either the USA Today story or the investigators’ reports, or to probe the weaknesses of test security protocols in Washington and
