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Search results for "No Child Left Behind" ...
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Scandals In Atlanta Public Schools
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution analyzed of the 2008 standardized test scores in the Atlanta Public School System and laid the foundation for coverage of what is considered the largest case of academic fraud in the nation's history.
Tags: No Child Left Behind; Atlanta Public Schools; Cheating; Test Fraud; Academic Fraud
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Testing the System
The story focused on mandated state standardized tests and whether radical gains in scores in some schools or classrooms were real or the product of cheating.
Tags: standardized tests; No Child Left Behind; tests; MAP tests; classroom; teachers; cheating
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The Robert Felner Investigation
Dr. Robert Felner was raided by federal agents his last day as the Dean of the College of Education and Human Development University of Louisville. He was to become Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin Parkside but was under question about a $500,000 grant.
Tags: Department of Education; No Child Left Behind; Curriculum Vitae; National Center for Public Education and Prevention; payroll
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A Dangerous Lesson
Schools in Harris County were found to be hiding reports of campus crime from the state agency, in addition to watering down the seriousness of offenses ranging from assault charges to weapon and drug possession. One school didn't have any reports on paper of fighting or drug possession for an entire year.
Tags: school shooting; student code of conduct; sexual assault; misreporting; No Child Left Behind;
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No Child Left Behind: A closer look
"'No Child Left Behind: A Closer Look' examines three little-known aspects of the No Child Left Behind Act, President Bush's signature education law." The three part series looks at race, failing schools, and the impact it has had on the "nation's best teachers."
Tags: No Child Left Behind Act; race; San Diego; teachers; schools; education; test scores; loopholes; school boards;
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Faking the Grade
This investigation, a follow up of a 2004 investigation of the same subject, found that test scores of more than 50,000 students across Texas show evidence of cheating. Cheating includes copying by students, as tests that are doctored by teachers and school administrators. Cheating is most common at underachieving schools, where the pressure to boost scores is the highest.
Tags: Philip Meyer Award; education; students; schools; cheating; tests; standardized tests; No Child Left Behind; regression analysis; Texas Education Agency; CAR; public records laws
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Hard Lessons: The Struggle to Keep Milwaukee Schools Safe
"The investigation showed that the intensity of the violence in Milwaukee Public Schools is increasing. WE discovered that more teachers were filing workers compensation claims after getting assaulted in school, and that the number of studens expelled for guns had doubled in recent years, among other things."
Tags: violence; No Child Left Behind; teachers; Milwaukee; public schools; safety; behavioral needs; guns;
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No Child Left Behind Loophole
Four years after President Bush signed the No Child Left Behind Act, nearly 2 million children's test scores are not being counted under the racial categories required by the law.
Tags: No Child Left Behind; loophole; race; minority; testing
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Federal Government Propaganda
The series began with the breaking news that the Bush administration paid pundit Armstrong Williams $240,000 to endorse its "No Child Left Behind" education law. The authors extended their investigation to look at how the government spends millions of dollars in taxpayer money to secretly sell America on a few of its most controversial policies.
Tags: Federal government; handouts; No Child Left Behind; education; FOIA; propaganda; Education Department
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"Public Money, Private Schools"
Ohio standardized testing and the No Child Left Behind program require test scores be disclosed to the public so taxpayers and parents can compare results. Thousands of Ohio children, who receive hundreds of millions of dollars worth of taxpayer-provided services, are exempt from standardized testing, and its sanction and reporting provisions. That's because Ohio law states that non-public elementary schools do not have to administer statewide proficiencies. So taxpayers have no idea what they are getting for their educational dollar going to non-public education.
Tags: private education; public education; standardized testing; No Child Left Behind