Testing, cheating, learning and failing
Written by Fannie Flono for the Charlotte Observer. Read the entire article here.
“Recent reports that a whopping 178 Atlanta Public School teachers and principals – 82 of whom have confessed – took part in cheating has grabbed the headlines. Now Philadelphia has taken the spotlight. An investigation is under way after a state study showed 89 schools across the state, including 28 in the city, had been flagged for questionable gains on test scores.
But these high-profile cases are only the tip of the iceberg. For more than a decade, charges of test cheating have dogged cities and states nationwide. Among them? Washington, D.C., Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Ohio and Texas as well as Pennsylvania and Georgia. …
More recently, the tenure of highly-touted reformer Michelle Rhee, former chancellor of Washington, D.C., schools, has been tainted by charges of test fraud. Reports earlier this year said more than half of D.C. elementary schools showed evidence of adult tampering with