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Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Reported test cheating tripled under Bloomberg

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Reported test cheating tripled under Bloomberg

Reported test cheating tripled under Bloomberg

Annual allegations of test-tampering and grade-changing by educators have more than tripled since Mayor Bloomberg took control of New York City’s school system. Top bureaucrats, Wolcott and Polakow-Suransky go into spin mode.
“People are reporting things, that’s fine; we want people to report things,” Mr. Walcott said. But, he added, “people could be reporting for real and not necessarily real