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Former Atlanta educators jailed in test cheating scandal
Former Atlanta educators jailed in test cheating scandal
A state investigation found that as far back as 2005, educators fed answers to students or erased and changed answers on tests after they were turned in. Evidence of cheating was found in 44 schools with nearly 180 educators involved, and teachers who tried to report it were threatened with retaliation.
ATLANTA (AP) — A group of former Atlanta educators convicted in a test cheating scandal were locked up in Fulton County jails Thursday as they await sentences that could send them to prison for years.In one of the nation's largest cheating scandals of its kind, the 11 defendants were convicted Wednesday of racketeering for their roles in a scheme to inflate students' scores on standardized exams.
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Re: Former Atlanta educators jailed in test cheating scandal
They should be punished. Was some of this due to outside pressure to improve test scores and/or related to school funding?
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Re: Former Atlanta educators jailed in test cheating scandal
Not to minimize this but even at the HIGH end of involvement (I used 180) according to the article since 2005 divided by the Atlanta public schools total teachers (about 5800) this represents only about 4% of all the teachers. I wonder in ANY endeavor what percentage of cheaters there are ? Just a thought.
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