Atlanta Students Head Back To School Amid Cheating Scandal
ATLANTA — Students return to Atlanta's schools this week for what's likely to be a tough year amid a cheating scandal that has forced thousands ...
ATLANTA — Students return to Atlanta's schools this week for what's likely to be a tough year amid a cheating scandal that has forced thousands ...
Posted 09.20.2011
Just seven educators implicated in the Atlanta cheating scandal met the Wednesday evening deadline imposed by interim superintendent Erroll Davis to r...
Atlanta Journal Constitution | Nancy Badertscher | Posted 09.19.2011
ALBANY -- A state investigation into widespread CRCT cheating is shifting from Atlanta to Dougherty County, where the new school superintendent procla...
Larry Strauss | Posted 09.17.2011
More serious than the unfolding cheating scandal in Atlanta public schools are wasted instructional hours -- millions of them if we add them up for each student -- including all the squandered time associated with the testing itself.
Posted 09.15.2011
The 178 educators implicated in the Atlanta Public Schools' cheating investigation received letters in their mailboxes Friday from interim Superintend...
AP | By DORIE TURNER | Posted 09.15.2011
ATLANTA -- Teachers spent nights huddled in a back room, erasing wrong answers on students' test sheets and filling in the correct bubbles. At another...
Posted 09.13.2011
Atlanta Public Schools may have to return $967,022 of federal funds granted for falsely high test scores. All 44 of the Atlanta schools accused of ...
AP | Posted 09.11.2011
ATLANTA -- The fallout from the Atlanta Public Schools cheating scandal continued to spread as four area superintendents were replaced and a school di...
Posted 09.11.2011
Jay Leno last week offered his two cents on the Atlanta schools cheating scandal in his nightly monologue while discussing the heat wave that swept Lo...
John Merrow | Posted 09.11.2011
Madeleine Albright said a special place in Hell was set aside for successful women who refused to help other women succeed. An even hotter spot should be reserved for those who knowingly cheat children out of a decent education and lie to them about their achievements.
HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 09.10.2011
As Atlanta deals with the fallout of a report that exposed widespread, systemic cheating by educators on standardized tests, more and more such episod...
The Atlanta Journal Constitution | Laura Diamond and Kristina Torres | Posted 09.09.2011
Erroll Davis knew he had a mess on his hands when he agreed to temporarily lead the beleaguered Atlanta Public Schools. How big of a mess, however, on...
Timothy D. Slekar | Posted 09.06.2011
Children, families, communities and schools are being harmed. High stakes testing and accountability-based reforms undermine our democracy and do not work.
Posted 09.07.2011
Amid an investigation into alleged cheating on Washington, DC standardized tests, the school district released figures today that show a relatively fl...
Posted 09.06.2011
In a video interview Wednesday with 11Alive News, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said he was "stunned" when he learned of the teacher cheatin...
AP | DORIE TURNER | Posted 10.07.2011