New York State Flags 62 Schools For Possible Cheating Based On Erasure Analysis Once Deemed Too Pricey

The New York Times:

Cheating scandals have been rolling up the East Coast like a hurricane this year, from Atlanta to Washington, Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

In New York State, however, education officials have said the spark that set off most of the investigations in those places, a procedure called erasure analysis of standardized tests, was something they could not afford and did not do.

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Comments

[Marx Twain]

12:22 PM on 09/27/2011

Cheating is the inevitable result of high-stakes testing. If we used real world measures, such as looking at the number of graduates who went on to college or found jobs, it would be hard to cheat.

[Intelligentia]

09:20 PM on 09/26/2011

I do not know why people think this is surprising. I also believe that there is cheating going on at all levels, including standardized tests for professional schools.

[megwright]

09:39 PM on 09/26/2011

Cheating wasn't a problem until high-stakes testing under NCLB. As we get closer to 2014 and penalties for not making Adequate Yearly Progress grow more draconian, there will be more school administrators making panicked, poorly-considered decisions to attempt to ward off penalities for not meeting unrealistic standards. Too bad NCLB has nothing to do with improving the schools and everything to do with setting up schools to be rated "failing." That way, the stage is set for declaring public education irretrievably "broken" so education can be turned over to for-profit private schools run by ideologues or businessmen who think there's profit to be made by slashing teacher salaries and treating children like widgets, a la the "running a school like a business" model.

[Intelligentia]

10:18 PM on 09/26/2011

Spot on!

[ghostgirl21]

10:25 PM on 09/26/2011

Excellent post,meg.
A super-big fan to you,I think you're right.