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Discipline Without Stress Newsletter – April 2013

On May 3, 2013   /   Discipline News, Newsletters  

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Thirty-five Atlanta public schools educators and administrators were recently indicted in connection with alleged cheating on standardized testing.

The alleged cheating is believed to date back to early 2001, according to the … >>>

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Cheating in Public Schools

On April 4, 2013   /   Learning  

Thirty-five Atlanta public school educators and administrators were recently indicted in connection with alleged cheating on standardized tests.

The alleged cheating is believed to date back to early 2001, according to the indictment, when standardized testing scores began to turn around in the 50,000-student school district.

According to the indictment, the superintendent placed unreasonable goals on educators and protected and rewarded those who achieved targets by cheating. It also alleges she fired principals who failed to achieve goals and ignored suspicious test score gains throughout the school system.

A state review determined that some cheating had occurred in more than half of the district’s elementary and middle schools. About 180 teachers were initially implicated in the scandal of what was … >>>

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