Cheating report confirms teacher's suspicions

[no_hypocrisy]

Teaching second, fourth and fifth grades, she noticed inconsistencies between her students' abilities and their previous year's standardized test scores.

Some children with the highest rating on the previous year's test -- "exceeding expectations" -- arrived in her class completely unprepared for the coursework.

She started asking questions: How is this child "exceeding expectations" on last year's test "when they can't read and they can't count?" she asked her principal.

"Oh, I guess they are just a great guesser," Rogers-Martin says the principal told her.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/08/05/atlanta.public.schools.scandal/index.html?hpt=hp_bn1

[midnight]

1. K&R A fews ago the ACT/SAT scoring revealed cheating too...

Now Murdoch and co. gets a no bid contract for the data/software that will track these results... This sounds like it's just going to get more messy...

[xchrom]

2. Recommend

[Reader Rabbit]

3. I've noticed similar discrepancies in our state writing tests.

They are sent out and scored elsewhere. I've noticed students who have difficulty stringing a few sentences together getting scores that meet grade level standard, and students who are fantastic writers not meet grade level.