No Transcript Left Behind
If you need your students to receive good test scores, you could help them earn them — or just make sure they get them. Some 44 public schools in Atlanta, Ga., largely chose the latter option in order to satisfy the requirements of the federal No Child Left Behind law, state investigators say. “Everybody was in fear,” said a teacher: administrators bullied teachers, and teachers corrected exams before they were graded — or simply gave students the answers. During a decade of the “culture of cheating” (as the Associated Press put it), tens of thousands of students were promoted despite not really knowing basic material. Some of the 178 administrators and teachers named in the report may face charges of falsifying documents. (AC/AP) ...The teachers may have corrected the exams, but can prosecutors correct their moral lessons?Original Publication Date: 14 August 2011
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 18.
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 18.
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