Remainders: Paper’s probe into cheating coming this weekend

by Geoff Decker, at 9:14 pm

Districts are already responding to AJC’s not-yet-published cheating exposé. (Tennessean, Chronicle)
“Scripted” practice lesson on the Gettysburg Address gets poor marks from a teacher. (AnswerSheet)
A city student recalls the period when online learning replaced his teacher and cheating spiked. (HuffPo)
Charles Barron is positioning himself as the anti-charter candidate in Congressional race. (Capital NY)
Parents can officially begin applying to kindergarten programs on Monday. (InsideSchools)
In an Olympic year, a class gets a boost with help from a gold medalist; yours can, too. (GS Community)
Arne Duncan slightly revised his stance on releasing teacher ratings: He’s opposed. (Teacher Beat)
Last weekend, State Education Commissioner John King expressed a similar sentiment. (MetroFocus)
A teacher breaks down how students arrived at the definition of her word of the day. (ComingofAge)
Rick Hess profiles a Master’s of Education program housed in a business school. (Straight Up)

Tick Tock

Tick Tock New York DOE. When will you unveil what you know about cheating in your system? How Progress Reports and TDR’s have been manipulated. It’s not hard to detect. How will the DOE react when the extent is revealed?
Ellen

I am not sure of what you are saying: are all teachers cheating? I am not, nor have I ever been, a teacher….except for teaching my kids to be honest.
ASTRAKA

Is there joy in education today?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/there-is-no-joy-in-education-these-days/2012/03/24/gIQAe3YwYS_blog.html
the shame of it all

The entire focus on cheating is just a smokescreen to validate pushing federal control and online testing–now you know how far up Klein and the billionaire boys club have greased the system-all the way to the top—the BUYING of the Oval Office

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