In Pennsylvania, Suspicious Erasing on State Exams at 89 Schools – NYTimes.com

We can’t have Truth and Tradition if the schools lie to themselves, to us, and to their students (our children and grand children, remember?) about how things are going.

Never before have so many had so much reason to cheat. Students’ scores are now used to determine whether teachers and principals are good or bad, whether teachers should get a bonus or be fired, whether a school is a success or failure.

Will Pennsylvania do what it takes to root out cheating? Few school districts have. Most inquiries are led by educators who are not first-rate investigators and have little incentive to make their own districts look bad.

via In Pennsylvania, Suspicious Erasing on State Exams at 89 Schools – NYTimes.com.