Ditch Testing: Lessons from the Atlanta Cheating Scandal (Part 2): Not An Anomaly
Not an Anomaly: Systemic Ills Caused by Test-based Accountability Policies Secretary Duncan is not the only who tries to minimize the scale of the problem and reduce it to a technical issue. Chester E. Finn, a senior fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution and president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute. He is a former assistant secretary at the U.S. Department of Education under President Ronald Reagan, tries to do same. In his essay entitled Don’t ditch testing after Atlanta cheating, boost test security and published as a CNN special on July ...
