Investigators found a teacher at the high-performing Anderson School made up scores. (Daily News)
A critic of high-stakes testing says standardized exams contributed to the fraud at Anderson. (News)
End-of-the-world hysteria prompted some school districts around the country to cancel classes. (Times)
In an op-ed, Regent Roger Tilles says evaluations can’t take into account acts of heroism. (Newsday)
School nurses were asked to do a survey with suggestive questions about sexuality. (GothamSchools)
An elementary school helped a storm-battered high school rediscover some of its school spirit. (NY1)
The city said Mulgrew is stalling on an evaluation deal because of internal union politics. (News)
In an end-of-year speech, John Liu said top students should get a free ride to CUNY. (GothamSchools)
A teacher was arrested after a probe found he had sex with one of his wife’s youth choir members. (Post)
Normally quiet on gun control, unions are wading into the debate following Sandy Hook. (HuffPo)
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An actual comment from the Roger Tilles article on Newsday:
“EVERYTHING can be measured…just not to everyone’s liking….it’s called real life…COME GET SOME”
“Come get some”? Thank goodness for GS. Then again, this is what I get for straying away from GS, Washington Post, and at times, Ravitch’s blog among others.
Philip Nobile
The DOE actually encourages cheating by ignoring it. Think Regents scrubbing and credit recovery fraud. The DOE did nothing to detect, prevent, or punish these forms of cheating and remains purposely blind to the last best domain of grade fakery–that is, course grades where teachers routinely pass kids with undeserved 65s in order to satisfy administration quotas and avoid U ratings. This is the next ed scandal, if anybody dares to investigate.
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