As former Atlanta schools Superintendent Beverly Hall basked in the national spotlight, her teachers were rewarded with praise and bonuses for eye-popping gains on standardized test scores, some as high as 20 percentage points over a two-year period. But their amazing success was not because of innovative teaching techniques or a bold new curriculum. They cheated.
First to raise questions about Atlanta’s too-good-to-be-true test scores, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported recently that 178 Atlanta educators, including 38 principals, have been implicated in the “most wide-ranging investigation into test-cheating in a public school district ever conducted in United States history.”
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