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Old 07-06-2011, 06:23 PM
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Cooking the Books -- Public School Style...

I put this under politics because it's not an education story to me. There's a bigger political implication in this weeks education outrage..

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/htm...schools06.html


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WASHINGTON — Georgia investigators have found evidence of cheating at close to 80 percent of the Atlanta schools where they examined the 2009 administration of state tests.

The result was inflated test scores that led to thousands of children being denied the remedial education they were entitled to, state officials said Tuesday in announcing the results of the investigation. More than 80 educators have so far confessed to misconduct, and investigators said the cheating dated back to at least 2001.

The 48,000-student Atlanta district has been under a cloud for the past two years, ever since an Atlanta Journal-Constitution analysis found improbably high results on the state's Criterion-Referenced Competency Tests, or CRCT. Georgia uses those tests to determine whether schools have made adequate yearly progress under the federal No Child Left Behind law.

Based in part on what appeared to be Atlanta's strong results on standardized tests, Superintendent Beverly Hall has been hailed as a model for urban superintendents. In 2009, she was honored by the American Association of School Administrators as superintendent of the year. But amid the investigations and instability on the school board, she announced that she would not be seeking a contract extension, and left the district this June after 12 years.
Think Beverly Hall didn't know the books were cookin' when she went up to get her award?

See the public schools have been cooking the education books LONG before "no child left behind". They cooked test scores since I've been watching politics.

Which is why I ask my lefty buds again ---

When you malign free market capitalists for not having any morals, ethics or professionalism that can counteract their greed --- what is it that makes Public Service Employees any more reliable, ethical or efficient?

We KNOW that there are PLENTY of constrainsts on business to counter a pure profit motive. What countermeasures are there to just plain apathy and fraud in the PUBLIC sector?

Not only was the cheating widespread -- but there's plenty of evidence to suggest that teachers were BULLIED and HUMILIATED into joining in the fun..

http://www.cbsatlanta.com/story/1503...-investigation


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According to the report, now former Superintendent Beverly Hall should have known principal Christopher Waller was cheating at Parks because "once he became principal, the school immediately made dramatic gains on the CRCT and other tests." Instead, APS publicly praised the principal and the school for its achievements, the report said.

State investigators said at Fain Elementary, the principal forced a teacher to crawl under a table in a faculty meeting because that teacher's students' test scores were low.

At Gideons Elementary school, according to the report, four educators admitted that they met at a home in Douglas County one weekend for a "changing party," changing students' wrong answers to right.

And at Perkerson Elementary School, one teacher told investigators she was surprised to learn that one student, who sat under a table during the test, then randomly filled in answers, still passed. Investigators learned that several students passed first grade reading at Perkerson but are now struggling to read in the third grade.

Of the 178 educators named in the report, 38 are school principals.

Six of the 38 principals refused to answer investigators' questions, Deal said.
Can't pass a dumbed downed "lowest common denominator" test without cheating. Yeah we should keep ethics and morals to the professionals..
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