At least 178 teachers and principals in Atlanta Public Schools cheated to raise student scores on high-stakes standardized tests, according to a report from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. 82 confessed.
Friday, July 8, 2011
Someone on Education Street Is Cheating
Cheating on high-stakes tests by teachers and administrators is old news. Should we teachers take to the streets to identify the culprits and call them to make good? OK, I'm ready. Now who's to blame? Children who haven't learned and therefore MADE educators cheat? Maybe we should complain about local taxpayers who cut education budgets? How about pointing to NCLB that makes accountability so important? No, those are not the culprits. I suggest we protest against the political powerbrokers that have decided to use tests as teacher evaluation measures. Teacher competence cannot be reliably measured by standardized tests. For more see:
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