Here’s my latest cheating story, from today’s front page:
Unhappy with the way an outside company did the job, the Texas Education Agency appears ready to take on the hunt for cheaters itself.
An agency task force has recommended that TEA build its own system for analyzing scores on the TAKS test to look for suspicious patterns.
But it could be another year or more before the system is ready.
Until then, it appears likely that testing data will go unscrutinized.
“Investigating these anomalies a year or two later is very difficult,” said Michael Donley, the agency’s inspector general. “I have a feeling that old data will be skipped.”
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