SAT Officials To Testify At New York Cheating Hearing
FARMINGDALE, N.Y. — A security firm run by the former director of the FBI has been retained to review security – and will recommend change...
FARMINGDALE, N.Y. — A security firm run by the former director of the FBI has been retained to review security – and will recommend change...
AP | By DORIE TURNER | Posted 10.13.2011
ATLANTA -- A Georgia state commission decided Thursday to revoke the teaching licenses of eight teachers and three school administrators in the Atlant...
The New York Times | Sharon Otterman | Posted 11.26.2011
Cheating scandals have been rolling up the East Coast like a hurricane this year, from Atlanta to Washington, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. In New Y...
Salon | Daniel Denvir | Posted 11.15.2011
New studies show that the disappearance of art, music and even recess is having a devastating effect on kids Forty-nine million or so American chil...
Posted 11.08.2011
Former Atlanta Public Schools Superintendent Beverly Hall says she "can't accept that there is a culture of cheating" among Atlanta schools. She made ...
Posted 11.06.2011
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...
Atlanta Journal Constitution | Jaime Sarrio | Posted 10.30.2011
Atlanta school board members Monday voted to waive legal privacy rights in connection to a high-profile cheating scandal, a signal the district once c...
Reuters | Nader Mousavizadeh | Posted 10.27.2011
(Reuters) - Atlanta public school officials appeared on Friday before a county grand jury investigating alleged cheating by teachers and principals on...
The New York Times | MICHAEL WINERIP | Posted 10.22.2011
WASHINGTON -- Why won't Michelle Rhee talk to USA Today? Ms. Rhee, the chancellor of the Washington public schools from 2007 to 2010, is the nation...
The Washington Independent | Mikhail Zinshteyn | Posted 10.12.2011
The Louisiana Department of Education (LDOE) did not conduct an erasure analysis of the state's standardized test scores for the 2009-2010 academic ye...
The New York Times | MICHAEL WINERIP | Posted 10.01.2011
PHILADELPHIA -- In April, Dale Mezzacappa attended a panel discussion on cheating sponsored by the Education Writers Association. At the time, she was...
Alexander Russo | Posted 09.27.2011
Cheating incidents are like shark sightings and crime reports; they are amplified by the media and are easily influenced by changes in definitions and reporting requirements.
Posted 09.25.2011
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...
AP | DORIE TURNER | Posted 09.17.2011
ATLANTA — U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan said Monday he has been in contact with the department's independent investigative arm about test...
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 ...
Posted 09.13.2011
While on vacation in Hawaii, former Atlanta Public Schools superintendent Beverly Hall told WXIA TV on camera Wednesday that she "absolutely knew noth...
Posted 09.12.2011
Three year-round elementary schools opened for classes in Atlanta today without problems, the Atlanta Journal Constitution reports. Two of the thre...
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...
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...
Tim Mihalsky | Posted 05.25.2011
Every PR practitioner needs to take some advice from Eminem. Eminem's honesty leaves no room for the media to question him or TMZ the opportunity to have an exclusive on what drugs he did.
Posted 05.25.2011
Tiger Woods is the latest celebrity to prove that riches and fame do not a monogamous marriage make. Which of these scandals did you see coming, and w...
Posted 05.25.2011
Tiger Woods is the latest adulterer to prove that riches and fame do not a happy marriage make. Which of these cheating scandals did you see coming an...
AP | FRANK ELTMAN | Posted 12.25.2011