Increasingly, NAEP scores are being used by big-city district leaders like former ATL head Beverly Hall as a defense against cheating allegations or other forms of gaming the accountability system. Former NYC head Joel Klein and former DC head Michelle Rhee have also used the scores as a key statistic supporting their impact. The increasingly public use of NAEP scores raises the question whether "juking" NAEP is next.
In reality, it may already be happening.
Cheating-related news coverage is everywhere, it seems -- though no one can really say whether there's more cheating or just more coverage (the shark-sighting problem, let's call it). Here's a quick sample: Officials replaced amid Atlanta cheating scandal: The fallout from the Atlanta Public Schools cheating scandal continued
