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National Center for Fair and Open Testing
Public Education Director for Fair Test, the National Center for Fair and Open Testing, a nonprofit based in Boston, Massachusetts
PROFILE
Robert Schaeffer
Guest
FROM Robert Schaeffer
To the Point
Is High-Stakes Testing the Ruin of School Reform? In Atlanta, 35 teachers and administrators were indicted this week for conspiring to raise student scores on standardized tests. In El Paso, a former superintendent’s in prison for putting kids in the wrong grade, pushing them out of school or preventing them from enrolling—so that test scores would meet high standards of accountability. Texas spends more on standardized testing than any other state. It’s where George W. Bush got the idea for “No Child Left Behind,” which evolved into “Race to the Top” under Barack Obama.
To the Point
Atlanta Public Schools Cheating Scandal Five of 35 indicted educators turned themselves in today on charges of turning Atlanta's public school system into a criminal conspiracy to raise standardized student test scores for financial gain and professional recognition. Beverly Hall, National School Superintendent of 2009, could face 45 years in prison. We hear more from Alan Judd, one of the investigative reporters at the Atlanta Journal Constitution , which broke the story, and Bob Schaeffer, public education director for the National Center for Fair and Open Testing , a nonprofit in Boston.
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