tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33431390.post1317557776784308635..comments2024-03-26T11:07:03.496-04:00Comments on Ed Notes Online: Taking a Trip Through Cheating Landed notes onlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15018047869059226777noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33431390.post-19852910475064109602010-06-13T12:38:33.852-04:002010-06-13T12:38:33.852-04:00Principal and teacher cheating in NYC public schoo...Principal and teacher cheating in NYC public schools is a scandal waiting explode. Inflating scores on high stakes tests is so engrained in the culture that it usually remains on the downlow, unspoken, unnoticed, and as Steven Levitt wrote in Freakonomics “just about never punished.”<br /> <br />Who is to blame for this vast educational flim-flam? The state education department for lack of enforcement and audits. The Mayor and the Chancellor for tolerating , even encouraging, tampering by their indifference. President Mulgrew for refusing to discuss or deter the crime sprees of his members. My District Rep actually advised me to cover up a Regents cheating ring at my school, the Cobble Hill School of American Studies in Brooklyn, lest guilty teachers be swept up in the investigation of the AP who ran the show.<br /> <br />After I blew the whistle and OSI substantiated my allegations via three teacher confessions, the AP resigned in disgrace, the Principal was removed for covering-up, and the LIS got a written reprimand. So far, so good. Justice was done. Then two years later, SCI contradicted OSI’s verdict with a report of its own, saying that there was insufficient evidence of cheating.<br /> <br />Whose conclusion did the Chancellor accept? His own investigators’ or SCI’s? Of course, he endorsed the finding that took the tampering off the books and chilled whistleblowers like me from exposing corruption as mandated by city law. (N.B. The Mayor vetoed the City Council’s law extending whistleblower protection to teachers, but it passed over his veto in 2006.)<br /> <br />The SCI report embraced by Chancellor was so fraudulent --e.g., it was unencumbered by an audit of the disputed Regents exams—that it is currently under investigation itself on my complaint by an Inspector General of the Department of Investigation. <br /> <br />I urge teachers reading this comment to flood Norm with their cheating stories and suggestions for prevention.Philip Nobilienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33431390.post-32644515811412107032010-06-12T18:59:43.112-04:002010-06-12T18:59:43.112-04:00If the DOE pays me enough, I can be a shill and ta...If the DOE pays me enough, I can be a shill and take the place of third or fifth graders and guarantee at least a 3 if not a 4!!I'll help anyone who wants to reach AYP (for a fee of course)!!H Streetnoreply@blogger.com