Sentences with phrase «schools cheat by»

Now, schools cheat by paying middlemen to ferry prospects on unofficial visits they couldn't otherwise afford.

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In her latest book, The Death and Life of the Great American School System, she charges that the state reading and math tests mandated by the No Child Left Behind Act lower the bar, produce inconsistent results, lack content, promote cheating, and encourage teachers to waste time on test - taking strategies.

Jonathan Kozol is celebrated in educator - land for his tear - jerking accounts of how poor kids get cheated by the tightwad public schools and the miserable, selfish, capitalist society of the United States.

In schools, norms of modesty, comportment, and academic honesty are replaced by widespread activities of lawlessness and cheating (along with the rise of forms of surveillance of youth), while in the fraught realm of coming - of - age, courtship norms are replaced by hookups and utilitarian sexual encounters.

In April of 1995, a group of students at Steinmetz High School in Chicago were suspected of cheating in the statewide Academic Decathalon by receiving the answers beforehand from their coach.

Education is essentially competitive, not cooperative, as illustrated by the common practice of grading on a curve, or the fact that students getting together to cooperate on their work are said to be «cheating» — so highly are the communal virtues regarded in our schools.

Says Pittsburgh basketball coach Paul Evans, «Not only will it lead to more cheating on the SAT and ACT scores, but you'll have cheating by boosters who will pay for the [nonqualifiers»] first year of school.»

Pope's book is about high school students who «do school,» gaming the system, cheating, getting by, and otherwise performing school without engaging in actual learning.

Unfortunately, she is typical of a breed of teenagers who have become so focused — by their parents, their schools, the culture, their peers and themselves on gaming the system, cheating when necessary and believing that money and material goods are the foundation of a life well - lived — that they have little opportunity to develop the kinds of ideas that used to be typical of teenagers.

Since research shows that stressed - out and exhausted students may be more likely to cheat, schools and parents may want to abide by the «less is more» rule.

Seems like he's cheating the school kids by not paying his share.

We understand smart phones provide an invaluable reference with the Internet in our palms, but ask any high school student and even they will tell you it is not acceptable to cheat by using the phone for any reason during a test or in this case a debate.

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman brought a similar lawsuit against Trump, saying he cheated thousands of New York students by claiming the school was accredited when it was not.

And then there is the much bigger rump that could not get access to good schools (down under Labour), good apprenticeships / sponsoring companies, also down under Labour and lastly betrayed by a Labour Govt that seems to think spending vast amounts of money on snooping campaigns to catch benefit cheats is a better investment than educating and reskilling the un-employed, who on going out to do the jobs that must be done find themselves up against foreign labour sometimes willing to work the most brutal conditions (and maybe less than min wage because it is still better than home).

Regardless of whether those school administrators were right to be wary, not a year has gone by since that I haven't felt cheated out of a life - changing experience.

Issues discussed here include whether usual punishments actually will discourage cheating by others, and whether institutions conducting contracted research studies (e.g., universities, medical schools, research institutes) can be trusted to police themselves?

Two years later, the investigation found that cheating had occurred in at least 44 schools and that one of Georgia's major school districts had been plagued by «organized and systemic misconduct.»

The authors themselves say that their results «show that explicit cheating by school personnel is not likely to be a serious enough problem by itself to call into question high - stakes testing.»

In a 2006 poll conducted by the Josephson Institute's Report Card on the Ethics of American Youth, 60 percent of the 35,000 high school students polled admitted to cheating during a test at school within the past twelve months, and 35 percent of students said they'd cheated two or more times.

A ten - minute YouTube video titled How to Cheat in School (since taken down by the poster, «selfmadebillionaire») featured a teen cheating guru explaining the keys to becoming a good cheater in a gospel - like tone.

A new report published by the British Humanist Association (BHA), entitled «An Unholy Mess», reveals that faith schools are systematically cheating the admissions system.

In another nationwide study, nine out of ten high school teachers surveyed by the American School Board Journal (ASBJ) and the Education Writers Association acknowledged that cheating is a problem in their sschool teachers surveyed by the American School Board Journal (ASBJ) and the Education Writers Association acknowledged that cheating is a problem in their sSchool Board Journal (ASBJ) and the Education Writers Association acknowledged that cheating is a problem in their schoolschool.

Until recently, the movement advocating public single - sex education consisted mainly of people such as Ransome and DeBar — girls» advocates steeped in books like Mary Pipher's Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls and Failing at Fairness: How Our Schools Cheat Girls, by researchers Myra and David Sadker.

A 1998 national report by Who's Who Among American High School Students showed four of five top students admitted cheating at some point.

Gateway was founded in 1998 by a group of parents whose children had learning differences and who felt that traditional public school education was cheating their kids.

The legitimacy of test score increases in District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS), in particular those at Crosby S. Noyes Education Campus, are the focus of the latest installment in USA Today's «Testing the System,» a multi-part series exploring the extent and causes of cheating — by teachers, principals and schools — on standardizedSchools (DCPS), in particular those at Crosby S. Noyes Education Campus, are the focus of the latest installment in USA Today's «Testing the System,» a multi-part series exploring the extent and causes of cheating — by teachers, principals and schools — on standardizedschools — on standardized tests.

• too much school time is given over to test prep — and the pressure to lift scores leads to cheating and other unsavory practices; • subjects and accomplishments that aren't tested — art, creativity, leadership, independent thinking, etc. — are getting squeezed if not discarded; • teachers are losing their freedom to practice their craft, to make classes interesting and stimulating, and to act like professionals; • the curricular homogenizing that generally follows from standardized tests and state (or national) standards represents an undesirable usurpation of school autonomy, teacher freedom, and local control by distant authorities; and • judging teachers and schools by pupil test scores is inaccurate and unfair, given the kids» different starting points and home circumstances, the variation in class sizes and school resources, and the many other services that schools and teachers are now expected to provide their students.

Over the years I have often been asked to help resolve trouble in schools torn apart by cheating scandals.

Cizek cites December 1999 charges by Edward Stancik, the city's special commissioner of investigation for the public schools, that 52 teachers and administrators had assisted students in cheating on standardized tests.

In my experience, it can take days of intense discussion, and some arm twisting, to get a school community to develop a no - cheating standard that is solidly supported by expressions of moral concern.

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Reports surfaced last month that administrators were investigating allegations of cheating by some educators at Jefferson Elementary School.

These scandals have aroused public concern, but there has been little hard evidence on the extent of cheating by school personnel on the type of tests required by recently enacted accountability legislation.

As might be expected, the cheating by school personnel increased following the introduction of high - stakes testing, particularly in the lowest - performing classrooms.

Finally, to the extent that cheating is either condoned by the principal or carried out by the school's testing coordinator, one would expect to find multiple classrooms in a school cheating in any given year and perhaps even that cheating in a school one year predicts cheating there in future years.

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Among the many powerful benefits that can accrue when students work together lies one potential danger: the possibility of cheating, which can arise from complex group dynamics and a school's cultural norms, and which can be masked by the very collaboration that educators want to encourage.

This results in all manner of teaching to the test, epic amounts of revision, pressure, stress on pupils and parents, and yes, cheating by schools.

Rhee's D.C. «miracle» has also been clouded by suspicion: impossibly high wrong - to - right erasure rates indicate that several of Rhee's «blue ribbon» schools might have cheated their way to higher test scores.

The intensive test prep and drilling utilized at charter schools is academically vacuous and, by many measures, a form of cheating itself.

The number of school staff penalised for helping students cheat in exams has risen by nearly 50 per cent, as the number of penalties issued to schools and...

By removing letter grades, parents are cheated out of clear objective measures of school quality.

«Under Alonso's leadership, city schools saw growth in test scores, graduation rates and enrollment, but his administration was dogged by fiscal problems and cheating scandals.

This lack of transparency about the proficiency targets set, as well as the process by which cut scores are selected, results in children being cheated of high - quality education because schools and districts can look better - performing than they really are.

This is the proposal aggressively pushed by a governor who is billions of dollars behind the state's constitutional obligation to fund public schools equitably, who continues to use accounting tricks to cheat school districts out of millions of dollars owed under the already inadequate funding in the state budget, who has restricted districts from increasing revenue locally without a super-majority, and then has the nerve to blame strangled school districts for not raising test scores.

She was credited with greatly improving test scores in Washington, D.C. schools, but this accomplishment was cast into doubt by a USA Today investigation that suggested that test score gains during her term may have been the result of cheating on the part of school officials.

The D.C. school system has already had to pay out millions of dollars to teachers illegally fired by Rhee, and once the test score cheating scandals have been resolved, there will be certainly be many more.

• Michelle Rhee, former chancellor of DC Public Schools and one of the country's most well - known «education reformers,» knew early on about widespread testing irregularities and possible cheating — far earlier than she has claimed publicly to have known, according to a confidential memo that was sent to her back in 2009 and obtained by PBS» John Merrow.

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Monica Garcia, the board president, said the schools» high scores had been called into question by the cheating incident.