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Diane RavitchAtl. cheating scandal renews school reform debate - CBS News

Atl. cheating scandal renews school reform debate - CBS News

Atl. cheating scandal renews school reform debate

By
Mark Strassmann
(CBS News)

The Atlanta public schools are embroiled in a massive cheating scandal. It's a situation that's rippling far beyond the city's borders, because the alleged cheating involved the same sort of standardized tests used all over the country.

Most surprising is that it's not students who are accused, but 178 principals and teachers. Fifty-six schools were investigated, and cheating was found in 44, or nearly 80 percent, as CBS News correspondent Mark Strassmann reports.

It's a scathing report: A decade of systemic cheating in Atlanta's school system by the adults.