Thursday, February 6, 2014

I'm ashamed to say I live in Philadelphia

Schoolteacher Cheating

    
     Walter E. Williams | Feb 05, 2014    
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.            
DEMONSTRATING FOR MORE STATE MONEY , THE BUDGET NOT MEETING EXPENSES, THEN YOU READ SOMETHING LIKE THIS. EVIDENTLY THE STUDENTS ARE'T BEING TAUGHT, SO WHAT IS MORE FUNDING GOING TO DO ? CHEATING ON TESTS HURTS STUDENTS, IT DOESN'T HELP THEM
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