Jul. 9th, 2007
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Jul. 9th, 2007 02:54 pmNo Child Left Behind: In a for-profit school where performance on standardised tests results directly in increased funding, investigations show that poor-performing students are suspended so they "don't count" on the tests, answers are altered by the teachers before they're submitted to the state for marking, copies of the tests are provided in advance, and grades are flatly falsified outright.
And yet, somehow people are still surprised that this kind of behaviour appears when you make standardised test performance, not education, the driving goal of your school.
And yet, somehow people are still surprised that this kind of behaviour appears when you make standardised test performance, not education, the driving goal of your school.
