Washington Post: “DCPS leaves consultant Caveon's toolbox shut in test cheating allegation inquiry”
From Bill Turque’s article in the Washington Post.
“Let’s say there are signs of a serious problem in your house. Water is dripping from ominous stains that are spreading across the ceiling. Maybe there’s mold in the basement. Or cracks in the walls that weren’t there before. You hire the best contractor you can find.
And you ask him to paint the fence in the front yard.
That’s how skeptics characterize DCPS’ approach to investigating possible cheating on the 2010 DC CAS. It retained Caveon Test Security –as it did after the 2009 CAS–to look at classrooms with high rates of wrong-to-right erasures. But like the homeowner with signs of big trouble behind the walls, Acting Chancellor Kaya
