One Day in March that Might Change the Way We Look at Testing
By daylight, USA Today had hit the streets. It didn’t take long for the story to be picked up by the blogosphere, on television and radio, and in other media outlets.
Michelle Rhee’s test-driven reforms in Washington, D.C., which supposedly resulted in higher test scores and the firing of hundreds of teachers, were tainted by allegations of widespread cheating, the newspaper reported.Did the culture of testing – bonuses to principals who raised scores, exile to those who didn’t – actually cause the cheating to occur, people began to ask.
