Liberal mayors have recently engaged in battles with teachers unions
Chicago Teachers Union demands end of standardized testing - TheDCNF
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Unions seek to stymie merit-pay provisions
No wrong answers left behind - TheDC
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The staff of Cayuga Elementary may have helped students cheat on standardized tests
Teachers caught cheating - USA Today
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A USA Today investigative report found ways and reasons why teachers cheat, including changing the answers on their students’ standardized exams
Missing test scores halt college plans for California students - TheDC
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ACT lost the test scores of 100 high school seniors in Oakland, Calif.
NY schools touted high test scores, ignored flaws - NYT
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New York has been a national model for how to carry out education reform, so its sudden decline in passing rates may be seen as a cautionary tale
To stop cheats, colleges learn their trickery - NYT
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As the eternal temptation of students to cheat has gone high-tech, educators have responded with their own efforts to crack down
New York to begin gifted testing at age 3 - NYT
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City officials have revealed that they would begin searching for a new gifted admissions test that would allow 3-year-olds to be tested
U.S. reading scores stall in urban school districts - WSJ
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Like urban math scores reported in December, students in large U.S. cities have stagnant reading abilities
