Teachers Accused Of Giving Students Answers On State Tests In Exchange For Perks
Teachers at a Brooklyn elementary school are accused of giving their students the answers on standardized tests, reports the New York Daily News. In r...
Teachers at a Brooklyn elementary school are accused of giving their students the answers on standardized tests, reports the New York Daily News. In r...
AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 03.25.2012
ATLANTA — Hundreds of school systems nationwide exhibit suspicious test scores that point to the possibility of cheating, according to an investigat...
Posted 03.22.2012
Joe Cipp, Jr. resigned Wednesday as superintendent of the South Country Central School District in Long Island over an alleged grade-fixing scandal th...
Posted 02.20.2012
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...
Posted 03.28.2012
With mounting pressure from performance benchmarks on standardized tests, an increasing number of cheating scandals are unfolding across the country a...
AP | Posted 01.20.2012
WASHINGTON -- The Education Department wants the public's input to develop guidelines to prevent and detect cheating. The effort comes after several c...
Posted 01.28.2012
In her first official television interview since investigators uncovered one of the largest cheating scandals in public school history, former Atlanta...
Posted 01.22.2012
A Dallas elementary school that was given "exemplary" status for academic achievement only taught its third graders reading and math last year, and fa...
Atlanta Journal Constitution | Ty Tagami and Ernie Suggs | Posted 01.21.2012
Thousands of dollars to media consultants. Hundreds of thousands of dollars to lawyers. Millions of dollars to teachers and administrators who do no w...
Posted 01.08.2012
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 ...
AP | DORIE TURNER | Posted 01.02.2012
ATLANTA — Georgia has revoked the federal standing for more than 40 Atlanta elementary and middle schools named in a massive cheating scandal. ...
Posted 12.31.2011
Georgia's teacher licensing agency has temporarily halted investigations of nearly 180 educators implicated in the Atlanta Public Schools' widespread ...
Posted 12.19.2011
The teacher cheating scandal in Atlanta that was uncovered this year has rocked the country and cast a national spotlight on educators and standardize...
The New York Times | Sharon Otterman | Posted 12.17.2011
A charter school teacher warned her third graders that a standardized test question was "tricky," and they all changed their answers. A high school co...
The Huffington Post | Emmeline Zhao | Posted 02.14.2012
About a dozen Atlanta educators implicated in the district's cheating scandal find out Thursday whether Georgia education officials will strip them of...
Posted 12.10.2011
Twelve teachers who were involved in a Connecticut test tampering scandal are losing 20 days pay and must serve 25 hours of community service by tutor...
WSBTV | Posted 12.05.2011
ATLANTA -- The lawyer for four high-ranking Atlanta Public Schools officials told Channel 2 Action News he will ask a judge to throw out an erasure an...
Posted 11.27.2011
In an attempt to fill teaching positions still left open by teachers implicated in Atlanta's widespread cheating scandal, Atlanta Public Schools is ho...
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...
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...
Connecticut Post | Linda Conner Lambeck | Posted 10.13.2011
HARTFORD -- School employees found helping students cheat on state standardized test shouldn't only lose their jobs, they should pay to clean up the m...
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...
Posted 05.30.2012