New York Needs Money to Catch Test Cheaters
A story in the Wall Street Journal over the weekend caught my eye. Education officials in New York are asking for state funds to examine student score sheets for evidence of cheating.
The story is notable for several reasons. First, it's an example of yet another state where -- surprisingly -- this type of post-test monitoring isn't already in place. Second, the story points out that of the $2.1 million the officials say is needed, $1 million would be used to look for what's known as erasure anomalies -- evidence that that an incorrect answer was erased and the correct answer put in its place.
Last year, I interviewed an Atlanta Public Schools spokesman in the wake of the cheating scandal that had swept through his district.
I asked him about a report that had found significant evidence of erasure anomalies. The spokesman told me that nearly 80 percent of Atlanta's K-12 students qualified for free and reduced-price meals, and that many of them
The story is notable for several reasons. First, it's an example of yet another state where -- surprisingly -- this type of post-test monitoring isn't already in place. Second, the story points out that of the $2.1 million the officials say is needed, $1 million would be used to look for what's known as erasure anomalies -- evidence that that an incorrect answer was erased and the correct answer put in its place.
Last year, I interviewed an Atlanta Public Schools spokesman in the wake of the cheating scandal that had swept through his district.
I asked him about a report that had found significant evidence of erasure anomalies. The spokesman told me that nearly 80 percent of Atlanta's K-12 students qualified for free and reduced-price meals, and that many of them
