Will Common Core Help or Hurt Schools’ Cheating Problem?

Governing: Four years ago, the largest school cheating scandal in U.S. history shook Atlanta. Nearly 180 teachers and administrators at 44 of the city’s 56 public schools were implicated in a scheme to correct wrong answers given by students on standardized state tests, which were being used to evaluate each school’s performance under the federal education law known as No Child Left Behind. Some of the details seemed beyond belief, including parties at a principal’s house where school staff got together to change incorrect responses that students had penciled onto the test sheets.

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