Teaching to the Tests: Parents’ Lessons From a Scandal That Left Children Behind

By: Cee Marie Hinkle (Diary)  |  July 6th at 12:29 PM  | 

Given to children in the third to eighth grade, the Criterion-Referenced Competency Tests (CRCT) were meant to gauge each student’s abilities in reading, mathematics, English/Language Arts, Social studies, and Science. In the Atlanta Georgia School District, hours after the students handed in these tests, an alleged 140 teachers feverishly erased wrong answers and penciled in correct answers. An alleged thirty-eight principals were equally busy. Later, | Read More »