Today’s moderator: Maureen Downey
Maureen Downey has written about local, state and federal education policy at the AJC for 12 years. She’s also taught college classes in mass communications and journalism. However, she’s learned more about schools from having four children in them.
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A former Stanford education dean raises an interesting issue in a guest column today: How did Atlanta Public Schools manage to show marked improvement on a respected and rigorous federal test, yet have educators who believed it was necessary to cheat on a minimum competency state test? In the weekly response column, skeptical readers offer answers to that question. Speaking of testing, more parents around the country are pulling their kids out of state exams. Will this growing opt-out revolution reach Georgia?
Should the CRCT be optional?
Testing frenzy grows by Maureen Downey
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Cheating on one test, leading on another by Marshall S. Smith
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