A non-partisan blog promoting dialogue and action on a broad range of economic development stories and studies from across the political, ideological, and community development spectrum.

Saturday, July 16, 2011

Review of possible cheating on tests widened (Jonathan Silver) from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
"Calling the integrity of standardized exams a "paramount" concern, Pennsylvania Education Secretary Ron Tomalis has broadened a look into possible cheating on the tests taken annually by nearly 1 million schoolchildren."
In case you missed the Atlanta Journal Constitution's excellent, in-depth investigation of what has prompted much of this re-examination of test data, see HERE.  NPR's On Point program focused on the Atlanta scandal HERE.

No comments:

Post a Comment