Thursday, February 9, 2012

RheeFirst! » Rhee dismissed the cheating scandal as driven by the “enemies of school reform”

RheeFirst! » Rhee dismissed the cheating scandal as driven by the “enemies of school reform”:

Rhee dismissed the cheating scandal as driven by the “enemies of school reform”

Written by Guy Brandenburg for his blog. Read the entire post here.
And, of course, all of that supposed credit for dubious gains at certain schools also went to Michelle Rhee and Kaya Henderson. Remember Rhee’s initial reaction to the USA Today article on cheating on her watch? ‘It isn’t surprising,’ Rhee said in a statement Monday, ‘that the enemies of school reform once again are trying to argue that the Earth is flat and that there is no way test scores could have improved … unless someone cheated.’



D.C. test erasures scandal needs full probe: Washington Post column

Written by Robert McCartney for The Washington Post. Read the entire article here.
D.C. officials insist that past problems here weren’t nearly as bad as in Atlanta. But without a full investigation, how can we be sure that current principals or other officials have been held accountable if they previously conspired to falsify test results or winked at those who did so?

It wasn’t reassuring that the school system seemed to be stonewalling again in December. After promising for