Sunday, March 25, 2012

Schools cheating

  • The Atlanta Journal Constitution has named the Mobile County School System as one of nine urban systems whose extreme swings in test scores resemble a statistical pattern that indicated organized cheating in Atlantas 50,000-student system.
  • (Everything Alabama Blog)
  • A major newspaper published an article this weekend that names Metro Public Schools in a national cheating scandal. The Atlanta Journal Constitution says their investigation into standardized test scores has uncovered a nationwide problem.
  • (msnbc.com)
  • This isn't the first time schools in metro Detroit were suspected of cheating on standardized tests.
  • (Detroit Free Press)
  • ATLANTA — Hundreds of school systems nationwide, including Dallas ISD, exhibit suspicious test scores that point to the possibility of cheating, according to an investigation by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
  • (Dallas Morning News)
  • The story comes nearly a year after a major cheating scandal in the Atlanta Public Schools.
  • (Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog))
  • Bruckner was asked to comment on the Council Bluffs schools being flagged by a newspaper that looked at irregular shifts in scores. The flag does not necessarily mean cheating occurred.
  • (Omaha World-Herald)
  • A newspaper investigation into suspected test cheating in the nations schools excluded Nebraska schools because the states achievement tests are so new.
  • (Omaha World-Herald)
  • Reena Garner, a counselor at Craig Middle School, said cheating has never been a huge problem on the campuses she has worked at during her 28 years as an educator in the Abilene ISD. Most students are honest and do their best, she said.
  • (Abilene Reporter-News)
  • ATLANTA -- Alva Hill had no idea her 11-year-old grandson needed remedial help until the Atlanta Public Schools cheating scandal forced the system to tighten the rules. They had been passing him on, Hill said. But when the scandal came, he was kept back.
  • (WXIA 11 Alive)
  • Hundreds of school systems nationwide, including those in Houston and Dallas, exhibit suspicious test scores that point to the possibility of cheating, according to an investigation by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
  • (Bryan College Station Eagle)

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