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It’s one thing to say there was widespread cheating on standardized tests in Atlanta public schools, as the newly released results of a state investigation showed. It’s another thing to actually read the voluminous report. The details are shocking.
For those who haven’t been paying attention, Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal (R) on Tuesday released the results of a 10-month state investigation he had ordered into suspicions of cheating on state standardized Criterion-Referenced Competency Tests (or CRCT) in the Atlanta School System.
The results confirmed the suspicions and then some: The report said that cheating on 2009 standardized tests in Atlanta Public Schools was widespread and didn’t start that year, “significant and clear” warnings were ignored by top administrators, an environment of fear and intimidation ruled the system, and thousands of students were harmed. The cheating resulted primarily from “pressure to meet targets” in the data-driven system, it said.
The superintendent at the time, Beverly Hall, had been hailed for years for driving up standardized test scores. She just left the post, her reputation shattered. Hall has denied knowing about any cheating despite repeated assertions in the report by investigators that she and other administrators must have known.
Investigators went school by school, interviewing teachers, principals, top administrators and others to get to the bottom of the scandal, and then detailed what they learned. LINK LINK Yours, Issodhos
"When all has been said that can be said, and all has been done that can be done, there will be poetry";-) -- Issodhos
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Standardized tests - standardized cheating... Makes sense. 
You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the old model obsolete.
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This happened in Chicago a few years ago. Interestingly, the perps were caught through computer analysis of the fiddled results.
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A sad result of making testing more important than educating. 
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No, it's the sad result of not educating, thus "necessitating" the cheating in order to avoid penalty.
More analyses of testing results, is called for.
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' A sad result of making testing more important than educating. Educating? !! Who wants to do that !! It would interfere with turning children into docile consumer-units.
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Goodness. rationalizations and excuses for a systemic campaign of teachers and administrators falsifying test results. Who benefited from such actions? The teachers and the administrators, of course. Who were their victims? The students who were passed through the system without even the sorry education normally provided by the government controlled education system. They began as ignoramouses and will graduate (or at least leave) as died-in-the-wool ignoramouses whose economic worth will be that of a sub-minimum wage worker.
I wonder what rationalizations were used by the actual perps? I wonder wonder wonder what they could be....hmmmmm....
Yours in musing,
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I am convinced you’ll see more [cheating],” said DeKalb County teacher Laura Pittman, who added she was “sickened” by the scandal. “Anybody whose job is tied to performance, it is a setup. Employment tied to job performance ? Outragious!  Yours, Issodhos
"When all has been said that can be said, and all has been done that can be done, there will be poetry";-) -- Issodhos
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The staff moves were the first by Davis in response to a test-cheating scandal that has implicated 178 employees in 44 schools and could result in criminal charges. And there may be more people involved, according to the two men who led the state investigation.
Davis did not offer further changes, though more certainly will come. Given employees' contractual and legal rights to due process, it will take at least four months if not longer to address all employees involved. Tens years of this stuff before it comes to light? Who woulda thunk it .:-) Yours, Issodhos
"When all has been said that can be said, and all has been done that can be done, there will be poetry";-) -- Issodhos
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I am convinced you’ll see more [cheating],” said DeKalb County teacher Laura Pittman, who added she was “sickened” by the scandal. “Anybody whose job is tied to performance, it is a setup. Employment tied to job performance ? Outragious! Yours, Issodhos Shocking as this is, similar sorts of cheating are not uncommon in a wide variety of professional situations that are subject to pressures to meet numerical "goals" It is, for example, fairly common for police crime statistics to be manipulated It is not an excuse, but only a recognition that crude measures of performance are usually implemented as a matter of convenience, rather than because such systems produce optimum performance.
"It's not a lie if you believe it." -- George Costanza
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves. --Bertrand Russel
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