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• W3148967320 abstract "Nothing in education surprises me anymore. Not even ever-growing testing scandals. They're juicy and titillating, but not surprising. I'm no psychic, and I don't own a crystal ball or Ouija board. In fact, I struggle to remember where I left my car keys; I haven't seen my cell phone for at least two weeks; and I couldn't find my office without help of Lisa, my administrative assistant. Yet, I predicted these scandals from start. It was a no-brainer really. The surprise to me is that anyone who has lived in schools--as a student, teacher, or administrator--would have failed to predict it. But, as far as I can see, those with most power over what happens in schools these days also have least experience in classrooms. I wonder how many times legislators who voted for No Child Left Behind ever planned a lesson for 25 3rd graders with reading levels ranging from prekindergarten to 8th grade. The heroes of education under NCLB are those who can produce test score gains--not learning gains. For example, consider recently retired Beverly Hall, 2009 American Association of School Administrators Superintendent of Year, heroine of high-stakes test proponents, recipient of a $78,000 bonus in 2009 for miraculous test score gains in Atlanta Public Schools during her tenure. Under her leadership, 100-school, 50,000-student school district showed remarkable test score gains. Surely, she must be Superman ... well, Superwoman ... we've been waiting for? I mean if it could happen in Atlanta, it could happen anywhere! Perhaps. But recent disclosures from a state investigation revealed that 44 of district's 100 schools were guilty of systematic cheating. Oh, how mighty have fallen. And consider education's favorite rock star, Michelle Rhee. She was chancellor of Washington, D.C. schools for a little more than three years. In that time, she became a media darling, appearing on covers of Time and Newsweek. In her short tenure, Rhee alleged that she had transformed D.C. schools by applying her particular form of tough love. Anyone who could do that in three years deserves rock star billing, don't you agree? In my experience, three years is just about long enough to figure out how complex dysfunctional organizations are. Fixing dysfunction in such a short time is miraculous. Turns out, though, that widespread cheating greatly benefitted celebrated Rhee, just like it did Hall. In Rhee's case, testing company, McGraw-Hill, detected high rates of erasures from wrong to right answers at 103 of 168 schools and recommended a probe. An investigation under Rhee absolved every school. But USA Today reported that the odds are better for winning Powerball grand prize than having as many wrong-to-right erasures by chance. The school at center of investigation was Crosby S. Noyes Education Campus. Its improvements during Rhee's tenure were called spectacular, and Rhee used school as evidence that her tough-love approach worked. Why not? Their tests showed gains from 10% proficient to 58% proficient in just two years. Of course, that shining star was apparently a cheating hotbed. That's why such too-good-to-be-true stories roll off my back like water off a duck. I've heard them all before, and, all too often, they are not true. It started, I think with great Texas Miracle that propelled Rod Paige from superintendent of Houston Public Schools to Secretary of Education--which, in turn, led to No Child Left Behind. …" @default.
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