The rekindled relationship between the United States and Cuba has taken yet another step forward. On Tuesday, the White House announced that President Obama plans…
PHILADELPHIA — After the recent school cheating scandals in Atlanta, Philadelphia and Washington D.C., The Notebook, an education journal, has spoken to a teacher who admitted to helping students cheat on mandated state standardized tests. This teacher, a middle-aged White woman who grew up in the Philadelphia suburbs, told a story of tangled motivations and […]
Recently, teachers and principals in the Atlanta public school system admitted to helping students cheat on government mandated tests. Why would they cheat? Laws set up for No Child Left Behind place funding for schools, salaries for teachers and even jobs for teachers on the scores students produce on these tests. Of course, it was […]
ATLANTA — 178 teachers and principals in 44 schools have cheated to improve their school’s test score according to an investigation by the state of Georgia. The New York Times reports: Still, the investigation shows that cheating on the state-mandated Criterion-Referenced Competency Test began as early as 2001, and that “clear and significant” warnings were […]
