In Cheating Cases, Teachers Who Took Risks or Flouted Rules

Sharon Otterman:

A charter school teacher warned her third graders that a standardized test question was "tricky," and they all changed their answers. A high school coach in Brooklyn called a student into the hallway and slipped her a completed answer sheet in a newspaper. In the Bronx, a principal convened Finish Your Lab Days, where biology students ended up copying answers for work they never did.

These are among the 14 cases of cheating by educators substantiated by New York City's special commissioner of investigation for schools since 2002.

They represent a tiny fraction of the more than 1,250 accusations of test tampering or grade changing that the special commissioner has received since Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg took control of the city schools -- most are handled by the Education Department, which has declined to provide a full accounting of its investigations.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at October 21, 2011 1:30 AM
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