Sunday, March 25, 2012

Schools cheating

  • The findings represent an unprecedented look at the integrity of school testing, which has seized center stage in national education policy. While the analysis doesnt prove cheating, it found troubling patterns in hundreds of cities.
  • (Atlanta Journal Constitution)
  • 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)
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  • (Austin American-Statesman)
  • Hundreds of school systems nationwide exhibit suspicious test scores that point to the possibility of cheating, according to an investigation by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
  • (News-Democrat)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • The story comes nearly a year after a major cheating scandal in the Atlanta Public Schools.
  • (Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog))
  • 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)
  • including Fargo and Bismarck public schools, exhibit suspicious standardized test scores that point to the possibility of cheating, according to a major investigation by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
  • (INFORUM)

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