Cheating in Missouri Schools! But it's Not from the Students! The Sunday Education Weekly Reader 3.18.12
Welcome to the Sunday Education Weekly Reader for 03.18.12. Instead of twitter tidbits, we are linking a story (Missouri Fails to Check for Standardized Cheating) published this morning in the St. Louis Post Dispatch.
Missouri has its own version of teacher cheating recently discovered in other states...tests being changed, students given answers by teachers before the tests were given, etc. The state spends $8.4 Million to administer the MAP test to schools, however, none of that money is spend on test fraud detection services. A familiar refrain is in this article....Missouri conducts no such investigations (fraud detection), giving school districts that sole responsibility.
In other words, it's not DESE's fault. Nope. It's the fault of the school district. If the district doesn't catch