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Teachers who confessed to cheating blamed "inordinate pressure" to meet targets set by the district and said they faced severe consequences such as a negative evaluation or termination if they didn't. [7] Prior to the scandal, the APS had been lauded for making significant gains in standardized test scores.
Newton, the proxy test taker, was paid at least $188,000 from May of 2020 through February of 2024 for taking over 430 certification tests for teachers who paid for those services, officials said.
In July 2011, an investigation uncovered that 178 teachers from the Atlanta area had been found to be cheating from as early as 2001 by falsifying test results. [5] Aside from the teachers, 38 principals were linked to the scandal either by directly participating in the changing of wrong answers or allowing the changes to be made when they knew, or had the responsibility to know, what was ...
Ackerman's claim to have overseen an improvement in Philadelphia students' performance on standardized tests was challenged by the emergence of evidence that students' scores were inflated by widespread teacher-assisted cheating. [18] Arlene Ackerman was forced to resign by Mayor Michael Nutter and the School Reform Commission. [19]
Teacher: My students need support, not standardized tests. Biden, keep your promise to end testing. The attacks on standardized tests are part of a broader assault on academic sorting.
Our teachers taught us sharing is caring, but they probably weren't referring to test answers. CBS reports that, "an entire class at Southgate Thomas J. Anderson High School was caught cheating.
With Steven Levitt, Jacob uses unexpected test score fluctuations to assess teacher cheating in Chicago public schools and estimates that cheating by teachers or school administrators on standardized tests occurs in at least 4-5% of elementary school classrooms, with the frequency of cheating responding strongly to minor changes in incentives ...
When our schools are judged solely on standardized test results and teachers are forced to teach to the test, we fail our children. Instead, we should emphasize the process of reaching an answer ...