At 'Exemplary' Dallas School, Students Learned Only Math, Reading

[proud2BlibKansan]

Third-graders at Field Elementary School in Dallas helped propel their school to "exemplary" status, but unbeknownst to their parents those stellar math and reading scores came at a cost.

The students learned only math and reading for most of the school year, while teachers were pressured to fabricate grades for science, social studies and enrichment courses like music. Some of the grades were given by teachers who had never taught the subjects.

Field Elementary principal Roslyn Carter is on paid administrative leave after Dallas Independent School District investigators found numerous cases of falsified grades at the campus during the 2010-11 school year.

Parents, however, were never told about the phony grades and that their children missed nearly a whole school year of instruction in some subjects.

more . . . http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2011/11/21/13mct_txcheating.h31.html?r=1338162317

[MadHound]

1. Just a more extreme version of what is going on all over the country,

If it isn't on the test, it isn't getting taught in a lot of places. Not just science, but history, the arts, PE, on and on, all are sacrificed on the altar of the the almighty test.

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. MSIP 5 will probably count all academic areas equally

to avoid teaching only tested subjects.

[ashling]

3. I'm not sure it is a whole lot more extreme, they just got caught

These type of student's end up in my community college government class. I just read essays on the last test I gave. Sheesh!

[jberryhill]

4. What's wrong with the Two R's?

That extra R was unnecessary.

And, Jeez, how come two of the Three R's don't even really start with an R?