Atlanta Cheating Scandal

High Stakes Testing: Who's Cheating Whom?

Dennis Van Roekel | Posted 05.28.2012

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Dennis Van Roekel

Let's get back to the core purpose of public education -- ensuring students have access to a great education that prepares them for lifelong learning and success -- and leave the pressure cooker for pot roasts.

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Schools Nationwide Flagged For Possible Cheating, Some Question Analysis

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 03.25.2012

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ATLANTA — Hundreds of school systems nationwide exhibit suspicious test scores that point to the possibility of cheating, according to an investigat...

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Joy Resmovits

How Sleuths Catch Cheater Teachers

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 03.01.2012

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The first time Bob Wilson, a former DeKalb County, Georgia, district attorney, interviewed educators suspected of cheating on exams in 56 Atlanta scho...

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Teachers In Atlanta Cheating Scandal Could Get Contract Renewals

Posted 02.20.2012

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Atlanta Public Schools may be forced to renew the contracts of 90 tenured teachers implicated in one of the nation's largest cheating scandals because...

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Oklahoma The Latest In National String Of Test Cheating

Posted 03.28.2012

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With mounting pressure from performance benchmarks on standardized tests, an increasing number of cheating scandals are unfolding across the country a...

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Atlanta To Return Hundreds Of Thousands In Federal Dollars For Cheating

AP | By DORIE TURNER | Posted 01.20.2012

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ATLANTA -- Officials say the school district in Atlanta has agreed to repay more than $363,000 in federal money the district won by teachers and admin...

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WATCH: Ex-Schools Chief Threatens State Official Over 'Gestapo Tactics' Cheating Probe

The Huffington Post | Emmeline Zhao | Posted 03.19.2012

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A former Georgia school superintendent at two districts has been caught on tape bullying and threatening a state education official. The recording was...

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Former Atlanta Schools Chief: 'I Can't Make You Cheat'

Posted 01.28.2012

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In her first official television interview since investigators uncovered one of the largest cheating scandals in public school history, former Atlanta...

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Are Standardized Tests Pushing Teachers To Cheat?

Posted 01.08.2012

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From Georgia's southern charm to California's golden beaches, the east and west coasts boast cultures of their own. But one particular culture -- one ...

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Atlanta High Schools Broke Rules To Meet Performance Standards

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution | Alan Judd | Posted 12.24.2011

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A learning disability made school hard for Chantel Cox. But she always stayed on grade level and looked forward to earning a high school diploma. She ...

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First Punishments In Atlanta Cheating Scandal To Be Issued

The Huffington Post | Emmeline Zhao | Posted 02.14.2012

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About a dozen Atlanta educators implicated in the district's cheating scandal find out Thursday whether Georgia education officials will strip them of...

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Joy Resmovits

U.S. Education Secretary Duncan Talks To HuffPost Education

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 11.23.2011

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With President Barack Obama poised to announce alternatives to states' compliance with the No Child Left Behind Act on Friday, the role of U.S. Educat...

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More Schools Afflicted By Alleged Teacher Cheating

Posted 11.06.2011

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Student test scores from two Los Angeles-area schools have been thrown out based on evidence of cheating by teachers. Three teachers at Short Avenu...

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Joy Resmovits

Investigator Uncovers Even More Teacher Cheating In Georgia

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 10.25.2011

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Richard Hyde, the investigator behind the July bombshell report of extensive teacher cheating in Atlanta's schools, expects to have the next installme...

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Joy Resmovits

Schools Could Be Cleared in Pennsylvania Cheating Investigation

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 10.16.2011

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Pennsylvania is one step closer to finding out just how much teacher cheating occurred on its 2009 standardized tests as cities nationwide try to make...

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Joy Resmovits

Inside A Scandal: Detecting Teacher Cheating In Atlanta, Across The Country

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 10.08.2011

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In an Ikea-sized warehouse turned de facto crime lab last fall, professor Gregory Cizek got his first look at the Atlanta test papers that would beget...

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Atlanta Students Head Back To School Amid Cheating Scandal

AP | DORIE TURNER | Posted 10.07.2011

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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 ...

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In Atlanta, Can Library Workers Do A Teachers' Job?

Posted 10.05.2011

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In light of a major budget shortfall and a shortage of teachers, Atlanta Public Schools has asked school librarians to fill in in the classroom. "D...

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Joy Resmovits

New York State Scrutinizing The Way It Tests Students

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 10.02.2011

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NEW YORK -- New York State officials say they are taking the integrity of student testing very seriously. The state's schools chief, John King, Jr....

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Joy Resmovits

In New Mexico, Almost Every School 'Left Behind'

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 09.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- By the standards of the decade-old No Child Left Behind law, almost 87 percent of New Mexico's schools aren't making "adequate yearly pr...

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Atlanta School Board Members To Keep Jobs, On Year-Long Probation

Posted 09.25.2011

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Atlanta's eight school board members will get to keep their jobs -- for now. The Georgia Board of Education signed a consent order with Atlanta Pub...

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The 5 Most Shocking Public School Cheating Scandals

Posted 09.25.2011

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The country's abuzz with the news and subsequent unfolding of the nation's largest-ever public schools cheating scandal in Atlanta, as the scandal has...

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Atlanta's Mass Exodus: About 30 More Quit

Posted 09.21.2011

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About 30 educators implicated in the Atlanta Public Schools cheating scandal have resigned or retired from the system, APS interim Superintendent Erro...

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Celebrating Teachers in a National Climate of Teacher Bashing

Lori Day | Posted 09.20.2011

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Lori Day

For me, the summer has been tainted by the collective demonization of some of the most passionate, caring, and hard-working professionals we have in this country.

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172 Atlanta Educators Face Firings In Cheating Scandal

Posted 09.20.2011

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Just seven educators implicated in the Atlanta cheating scandal met the Wednesday evening deadline imposed by interim superintendent Erroll Davis to r...

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