Philadelphia's public school system has joined several other big-city school systems, such as those in Atlanta, Detroit and Washington, D.C., in widespread teacher-led cheating on standardized academic achievement tests. So far, the city has fired three school principals, and The Wall Street Journal reports, "Nearly 140 teachers and administrators in Philadelphia public schools have been implicated in one of the nation's largest cheating scandals." (1/23/14) (http://tinyurl.com/q5makm3).
Investigators found that teachers got together after tests to erase the students' incorrect answers and replace them with correct answers. In some cases, they went as far as to give or show students answers during the test.
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Under No Child Left Behind, the district must show improvement, or they are penalized. It arises out of the stupidity of believing that the government can legislate away bad school performance. I'd wager that the majority of kids in their district are culturally resistant to instruction, so they feel trapped in an unfair situation. There may even be bonus's that depend on better test scores. It's a recipe for this kind of thing. Who in our day would have ever even imagined a world where the teachers are the cheaters?
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