The APS CRCT cheating report is now online, and I have begun to read it.
The beginning is a rehash of what we already knew from the AJC investigation so I would start with the list of schools and who was involved. It is incredible stuff about how blatant some of the cheating was at some schools. The school summaries provide names and spare no details. Get your coffee, put down that summer mystery and start reading.
There are some startling revelations. At Gideon, 12 employees confessed to cheating, including the principal. At Parks Middle, seven people confessed. At Venetian Hills Elementary, six confessed. At Toomer, three confessed, including the principal. At Dobbs, four confessed. (Dobbs was one of the schools that first reported a remarkable turnaround in 2001.) At MA Jones, six confessed.
Here is how they did it:
1: Teachers and administrators gathered and erased wrong answers after the test was given
2. The process was so sophisticated that some schools used plastic transparency sheets to make it easier to change wrong answers quickly.
3. The answer changing took place on weekends and once at a teachers house in Douglas County.
4. A principal forced a teacher with low CRCT scores to crawl under a table at a meeting.
5. Teachers arranged classroom seating so that weak students could cheat off better students.
6. Teachers in the early grades used voice inflections to help children figure out right answers.
7. Teachers pointed to the right answer as students took the tests.
8. Teachers just gave out the answers in class.
9. Some teachers let kids change their answers the next day in class.
10. Teachers discussed the answers to the next days test in class.
More later. I am still reading.
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