Schools Caught Cheating In Atlanta, Around The Country

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/08/atlanta-schools-cheating-scandal-ripples-across-country_n_919509.html

In an Ikea-sized warehouse turned de facto crime lab last fall, professor Gregory Cizek got his first look at the Atlanta test papers that would beget an education scandal of historic proportions.

Cizek, who teaches at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is a leading figure in psychometrics, the obscure field of mental measurement that includes setting and deciphering testing standards. He is often asked to seek out proof of tampering with student work. This case, however, was different.

In the Indianapolis warehouse, far from both his office and the schools where the suspect tests were taken, he saw clear evidence of what has become the most widespread episode of cheating ever documented in U.S. public schools, one which has diminished one of the nation's few education success stories of the past decade.

with all the blocking attempts by the republican congress to lessen education prospects and limit who can go to college by fighting pell grants. now this this is educational treason.

if this had gone unnoticed the kids would be the biggest losers, being put out in this world of now without the education needed to get a job, and all those who did get the education and can't get a job, you know the formers chances are slim and none.

they should get life, for betraying the people and denying the students the pursuit of happiness because of under cutting their education.

The 413-page report reads like a thriller, with tales of teachers holding "erasure parties" and principals publicly humiliating their employees. "A culture of fear and a conspiracy of silence infected the school system, and kept many teachers from teaching freely about misconduct," the report's authors concluded.

i'm without words here.