Professor Elam

Sunday Feb 14 2010

It seems that 69% of the elementary and middle schools in Atlanta have been sited for the large number of erasures, changing wrong to correct answers on the state mandated proficiency exam. 

This is nothing new, it has happened in Texas in the past. Administrators feel they are under so much pressure to produce results, well they take matters into their own hands and produce correct answers if not correct results. We are studying ethics in accounting class, here is a another classic example. 

The fear of being placed in 'Needs Improvement' category has adults doing things they know to be wrong, Okay no one is convicted yet but….Experts said it could become one of the largest cheating scandals in the era of widespread standardized testing.