Evidence of Nationwide Test Score Cheating

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I was so fed up with the time wasted by the schools with the multiple standardized tests and test prep that I tried to convince my children to get zeros one year alternating with their best efforts the next. They refused, but did tell me that it is common for kids to blow off the test.

 

Without the teachers "help" post finish of the exams by the students, it appears one school went from 42% to 4% on the 5th grade math portion of the test...

Sad really, to think teachers do this, and let's not dally about why, they do it to keep their schools open {read: money in their pockets)... and most importantly, that there is so many that don't meet a standard that others in a "better" school do, and have proved they can pass in largely majority numbers.

There is more than one problem at each of the schools that have this issue of fraud in the standardized tests... the root causes can be assembled from a rather lengthy list of what ails a system, and are not unique to every school; but, each institution may be unique in the mixture of root causes to this failure, and, their inabilities to correct a number of them either directly or indirectly...

However... INDIVIDUAL MOTIVATION is the largest factor in the success of any student.

How the child is encouraged to want to succeed, to want to learn new things, to take advantage of opportunities and to participate in their personal development so they can become self-sufficient and contribute, in large manner, to the methods and to the ways they can achieve their personal goals... that's what school teachers can't do by themselves... and sadly, that is something many parents have abandoned to the schools.

 

Stop the presses--this is news?

One can tell when it's a slow news day for the media. Cheating has been going on since a school administered the very first test, so why does this article get any attention?

 

My wife is an elementary school teacher and dispises (sp?) the No Child Left Behind program (novel idea but not realistic) and the fact that they are forced to teach for the tests. She is always talking about suspecting certain schools in her district of getting "creative" in order to better their test scores.

But when you place an entire schools annual report card and existence on this standardized testing are we not creating this monster?

 

Because now it's the TEACHERS cheating... that makes it a big deal Bra.

 

When NCLB was first established, each state was asked to set a baseline competency. The 'crats who play the game well set their states at retarded levels, and have been improving and garnering kudos ever since.

While teacher cheating is egregious and illegal, the entire NCLB act has been an exercise in stupidity and (legal) corruption from adults.