Educator tells what he saw during Atlanta schools cheating scandal
Education Week posted Arthur Richard Greenberg's account of what he witnessed during the Atlanta Public Schools cheating scandal while working for a nonprofit trying to improve student performance in the system.
He says the experience was “totally surprising and dismayingly consistent.” He saw students and teachers focused only on test preparation for the statewide exams, rather than teaching and learning content.
“We should know by now that test scores do not always equate with knowledge, and that teachers still need to really teach, not just prep students for tests,” Greenberg writes.
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Christopher Quinn is a writer and editor who has worked for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution since 1999. He writes stories on Veterans Affairs, business including high-tech growth in metro Atlanta, Georgia's $72 billion farm economy, and he oversees assigning and editing news obituaries.
