Sentences with phrase «teacher cheating scandal»

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The whole system puts unbelievably intense pressure on teachers, resulting in all sorts of unintended consequences like the standardized test cheating scandals, schools cutting into recess, etc. etc..

School administrators and teachers will be tempted to cheat, as in the recent scandal in Atlanta, or to narrow their instruction, as mentioned earlier.

A jury in Atlanta has found 11 teachers and administrators guilty of racketeering and other felony charges in what investigators found was a massive school test cheating scandal.

In Atlanta's recent cheating scandal we witnessed the admonishment of teachers who felt left to their own devices and up against a wall.

Although the rulemaking process began before news of widespread teacher cheating in Atlanta and Philadelphia hit the front pages, the scandals put Indiana's need for formal rules on teacher cheating into context:

Over the summer, two teachers were banned from teaching by the National College for Teaching and Leadership after cheating scandals were brought to light.

Worse yet, I see a national scandal emerging as teachers and school leaders cheat to help student test results improve.

Three former Atlanta public school teachers were each ordered to serve seven years in prison for their involvement in one of the nation's largest test - cheating scandals.

Though the Atlanta scandal and others have put a spotlight on teachers erasing wrong answers, there are other ways to cheat on standardized tests.

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.

MORE COVERAGE: • For teachers, many ways and reasons to cheat on tests • After cheating scandal, school learns lessons in taking tests

[22] An egregious example is of teachers changing student test scores in the highly publicized cheating scandals in Atlanta and New York.

«It's time to call the Bennett school letter grade scandal exactly what it is — cheating,» wrote Teresa Meredith, president of the Indiana State Teachers Association in an op - ed.

Ofqual is calling on schools to submit evidence on the risks and benefits of involving teachers in writing exam papers, following a cheating scandal that rocked several of England's most famous private schools over the summer.

Several teachers and even the president of a school known as the «Harvard of mortuary schools» are implicated in a cheating scandal.

We have seen this kind of thing recently with some of the cheating scandals involving teachers judged on the students» test scores.