One of the unexpected things you learn when you run a large high-stakes online exam is that the data starts revealing things the test was never designed to measure.
As CLT has grown, especially with more public school participation, one of the clearest insights has been around cheating.
The sad truth is that public school students are not just slightly more likely to cheat. They are dramatically more likely to attempt cheating than students from classical schools, religious schools, or homeschool backgrounds.
This shouldn’t be surprising.
Most public schools operate with no clear moral or philosophical framework for why cheating is inherently wrong. If education is just about the score, cheating simply becomes part of the game.
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My Question to Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers on Teacher Mulligans and our Disastrous Reading Results
When A Stands for Average: Students at the UW-Madison School of Education Receive Sky-High Grades. How Smart is That?
The data clearly indicate that being able to read is not a requirement for graduation at (Madison) East, especially if you are black or Hispanic”