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Standardized tests, merit pay at stake in LA school board election

| Robby Soave
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Liberal mayors have recently engaged in battles with teachers unions

Chicago Teachers Union demands end of standardized testing - TheDCNF

| Robby Soave
Pencil and a standardized test form

Unions seek to stymie merit-pay provisions

No wrong answers left behind - TheDC

| Adam Jablonowski
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The staff of Cayuga Elementary may have helped students cheat on standardized tests

Teachers caught cheating - USA Today

| interns

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

| Alyssa Moody

ACT lost the test scores of 100 high school seniors in Oakland, Calif.

NY schools touted high test scores, ignored flaws - NYT

| interns

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

| interns

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

| interns

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

| interns

Like urban math scores reported in December, students in large U.S. cities have stagnant reading abilities