Cheating Students Out Of An Education
What happens when struggling students turn in honest work and teachers cheat to make it appear that the kids are succeeding?
Well, what we’re seeing out of Atlanta – where a new report reveals that teachers boosted test scores by filling in the right answers for students – is much more than a debate about ethics in education. We’re seeing an assault on testing itself and on the principle of accountability.
Look, for example, at the way the head of the second-largest union, Randi Weingarten of the American Federation of Teachers, rationalized the unethical behavior. The widespread cheating, she said, “does raise