USA TODAY:
A USA TODAY investigation, based on documents and data secured under D.C.'s Freedom of Information Act, found that for the past three school years most of Noyes' classrooms had extraordinarily high numbers of erasures on standardized tests. The consistent pattern was that wrong answers were erased and changed to right ones.
Kleiman:
It’s annoying that the educational reform movement, which puts so much stress on being able to fire bad teachers, puts so little effort into punishing cheaters. It appears that, in D.C. the Rhee administration preferred discretion to anything that might have rocked the boat of test-score improvements. That was certainly true of Rod Paige in Houston, who parlayed a faked miracle on dropout rates into a cabinet position.
