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Monday, July 11, 2011

The most sickening part of Atlanta’s cheating scandal - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

The most sickening part of Atlanta’s cheating scandal - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

The most sickening part of Atlanta’s cheating scandal

What does it matter to kids if adults change some answers on a standardized test?

Too much.

In fact, the most sickening part of the standardized test scandal in Atlanta Public Schools is not how some teachers, principals and administrators cheated to make sure that students got scores that would reflect well on the adults.

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Renewing our hope in education: ‘August to June’

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This was written by Mark Phillips, professor emeritus of secondary education at San Francisco State Universityand author of a monthly column on education for the Marin Independent Journal .

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