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D.C. schools cheating report thin and biased - Class Struggle - The Washington Post

D.C. schools cheating report thin and biased - Class Struggle - The Washington Post:

Class Struggle


D.C. schools cheating report thin and biased

Now we know who did it. D.C. Inspector General Charles J. Willoughby has concluded his 16-month probe of cheating on the D.C. schools’ annual tests by saying that kids, not adults, made the astonishing number of wrong-to-right erasures found on answer sheets.
Never mind that testing companies, academic experts and veteran teachers say that students almost never make more than one or two wrong-to-right erasures per test. Ignore the fact that in Atlanta, where there were similar volumes of erasures on 2009 tests, state investigators with subpoena power found 178 principals and teachers had changed the answers.

DC schools chancellor Kaya Henderson (Matt McClain - The Washington Post)
After Willoughby’s investigators visited only one school, Crosby S. Noyes Education Campus, he