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States should do more to protect integrity of standardized testsMore than 170 teachers and administrators in Atlanta public schools are accused of participating in cheating on standardized tests to inflate student achievement.Teachers and administrators allegedly erased answers on students' standardized tests and ...

ATLANTA (Reuters) - Atlanta public school officials appeared on Friday before a county grand jury investigating alleged cheating by teachers and principals on standardized tests and turned over 95 volumes of subpoenaed documents, officials said.The documents were on DVDs, CDs and cassettes, ...

Schools need a better way to determine academic achievementInvestigators in Georgia last month issued a report outlining wide-scale cheating in Atlanta schools. The report named more than 170 educators who were allegedly involved in cheating on standardized tests, including changing students' answers.Educators ...

ATLANTA (Reuters) - Just seven of 178 Atlanta educators implicated in a standardized test cheating scandal resigned or retired on Wednesday to avoid being fired, a school spokesman said.The remaining teachers and principals will now face termination proceedings, Atlanta Public Schools spokesman ...

ATLANTA (Reuters) - Dozens of Atlanta public school educators accused of cheating on standardized testing have until Wednesday to resign or be fired, local school officials said on Monday.The city's interim school superintendent has given educators a three-day window starting on Monday ...

ATLANTA (Reuters) - Prosecutors are weighing whether to file criminal charges against 178 Atlanta teachers and principals who state investigators said cheated on standardized tests to inflate student scores.The cheating in 2009, found in 44 of the 56 Atlanta public schools examined, ...

Local foreign-born population exceeding national average; education levels not keeping upA Washington think tank says Las Vegas is a major U.S. metropolitan area with an emerging immigrant population but one whose adults are mostly low skilled because they lack high school degrees.The ...

BOSTON (Reuters) - Students in schools in the largest U.S. cities, many from low-income households, trail their peers elsewhere in the country in a test of science proficiency, according to a report released on Thursday.Fourth- and eighth-graders in most of the 17 ...

BOSTON (Reuters) - Public school students in the nation's largest cities trail their peers elsewhere in the United States in a test of science proficiency, said a new report released on Thursday.Fourth- and eighth-graders in most of the 17 participating urban districts ...

Numbers are very important when there is an incentive or a requirement. There is that unthinkable possibility that test scores may ultimately be tampered with to achieve the "right numbers". The State of Georgia is currently investigating whether a few teachers apparently ...

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Topic: Atlanta

Catching cheaters

Atlanta public school officials give documents to grand jury

Not making the grade

Only seven Atlanta educators quit amid cheating scandal

Educators in Atlanta cheating scandal told quit or be fired

Atlanta educators may face charges in cheating scandal

Area an emerging gateway for immigrants

Urban students lag in science learning: study

Urban schools' science scores lower than national average

Has education become little more than a numbers game?

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