Learning To Cheat

By: Repair_Man_Jack (Diary)  |  April 5th at 12:00 PM  | 

Guess who America’s new role model is? Her name is Beverly Hall. She is Atlanta’s former Superintendent of Schools. She is dynamic – a mover, a shaker, an achiever and a total and utter fraud. On April 2, 2013, her deception came to a final end. She and 34 other co-conspirators have been indicted for rigging the standardized test scores dating all the way back to 2001.

Not only has she destroyed the trust and honor in the Atlanta School System, she has obviously spawned copy-cats. According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia’s municipal schools are also rife with cheating conspiracies. Here is the latest in brotherly love and deceit.

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The George Bush-Ted Kennedy Chickens Come Home to Roost in Atlanta

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  July 7th at 11:33 AM  | 

One of the worst trends in modern public education in the United States is using a child’s performance on a standardized test to assess whether a teacher is doing his or her job and whether a school is performing or not performing. The trend was growing before George Bush and Ted Kennedy sat down and drafted No Child Left Behind in the early part of | Read More »