Did the devil NCLB make an Atlanta principal force a teacher to crawl underneath a table to humiliate the educator for not raising test scores? Or did Atlanta's system of using test score growth for principal evaluations make cheating inevitable? The official report on cheating in Atlanta is bound to prompt a debate whether or not the scandal is just an extreme version of the corruption caused by data-driven accountability. The report shows that some of the district’s behavior was qualitatively worse than the legal but dubious
