{"id":5937,"date":"2012-03-26T13:24:33","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T17:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=5937"},"modified":"2012-03-26T14:11:47","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T18:11:47","slug":"florida-schools-raise-few-red-flags-in-cheating-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/03\/26\/florida-schools-raise-few-red-flags-in-cheating-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Schools Raise Few Red Flags In Cheating Investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has identified suspicious test scores at nearly 200 school districts.<\/p><\/div>\n

Florida schools do not have patterns of suspicious test results that have plagued schools in Atlanta, Baltimore, St. Louis and elsewhere, according to an Atlanta Journal-Constitution<\/em> analysis<\/a> of testing data from 69,000 schools in 49 states.<\/p>\n

Only one county, Gadsden in the Panhandle, had more than 10 percent of schools show unusual gains or losses from the previous year’s score — and only for one year. That’s a far cry from Atlanta or St. Louis-area schools that had as many as one-quarter of all schools post suspicious gains or losses on standardized tests.<\/p>\n

The investigation sprang from a cheating scandal in Atlanta public school that eventually cost superintendent Beverly Hall her job.<\/p>\n

In all, nearly 200 school districts had enough suspicious tests that the probability of the scores happening — without any cheating — was on in 1,000. Inn 33 districts those odds were one in one million.<\/p>\n

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Critics of standardized testing worry cheating many increase as many states — including Florida — put more significance into those test scores.<\/p>\n

Florida and other states are also beginning to pay teachers<\/a>, in part, base on how well their students score on tests. Half of a teacher’s evaluation will be based on Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test scores, though those scores are averaged over several years.<\/p>\n

Check out the full package of stories here<\/a>. The AJC offers plenty to chew on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Florida schools do not have patterns of suspicious test results that have plagued schools in Atlanta, Baltimore, St. Louis and elsewhere, according to an Atlanta Journal-Constitution analysis of testing data from 69,000 schools in 49 states. Only one county, Gadsden in the Panhandle, had more than 10 percent of schools show unusual gains or losses […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[1134,193,1019,1006],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5937"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5942,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5937\/revisions\/5942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}