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Fifty people were charged this week with taking part in a nationwide scheme to game the process of admission to highly competitive schools. While federal authorities say that this is [...]

Byline: Nick Anderson For Noah Coates, the SAT and ACT were grueling, multiday marathons. The Baltimore County student took each exam in a private room, with twice the normal time, [...]

Byline: Moriah Balingit As schools were busy readying students for state exams, teachers at Cora Kelly School for Math, Science and Technology, a high-poverty school in Alexandria, Virginia, were poring [...]

MONTCLAIR, N.J. -- Serving subpoenas on public schoolteachers in class. Reading them their Miranda rights on school grounds. Using taxpayers' money to hire investigators to search school employees' computers late [...]

Byline: Perry Stein The superintendent of D.C. schools confirmed Thursday that her office has been cooperating with federal investigators as part of a probe into the city's public education system [...]

More than 200 teachers and principals received erroneous scores from New York State on a contentious measurement that ties their performance to how well their students do on tests, according [...]

School districts will not be penalized for having large numbers of students refuse to sit for the New York State standardized tests this year, education officials said on Thursday, ending [...]

The principal of a popular elementary school in Harlem acknowledged that she forged answers on students' state English exams in April because the students had not finished the tests, according [...]

The results of several dozen standardized tests taken by third graders at a sought-after public elementary school in Harlem have been invalidated amid allegations of testing improprieties by the school's [...]

Responding to cheating allegations, the company that administers the SAT tests around the world is withholding scores, at least temporarily, for thousands of Chinese and South Korean students just days [...]

The first sign that something was wrong appeared more than two years ago when a company grading student tests from Philadelphia noticed that erasures from wrong to right answers showed [...]

The principal of Stuyvesant High School, one of New York City's top public schools, mishandled the investigation into a large cheating operation there last year from the moment he was [...]

Close to 150 students in their final year of high school at Ibn Ghaldoun, an Islamic school in Rotterdam, will have to redo exams this week after thieves stole copies [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDNearly 2,700 New York City students were wrongly told in recent weeks they were not eligible for seats in public school gifted and talented programs because of errors in [...]

Students at the Hostos-Lincoln Academy in the Bronx blamed the English exams for making them anxious and sick. Teachers at Public School 152 in Manhattan said they had never seen [...]

An investigation into whether teachers in a Long Island school district improperly coached students on standardized tests has expanded to include an allegation that administrators changed a Regents exam grade [...]

The City Council in Washington will hold a hearing next week after a memo warning officials of cheating on standardized tests during the chancellorship of Michelle A. Rhee surfaced Thursday [...]

Investigators for a school district on Long Island's North Shore are looking into allegations that more than a dozen educators from two elementary schools improperly helped students on standardized tests, [...]

Byline: Craig Smith April 08--Pennsylvania school officials continue to investigate whether testing irregularities are the result of cheating, the outcome of which could put dozens of educators' certifications in jeopardy. [...]

There are few more contentious issues in public education than the increased reliance on standardized testing. In the context of a fiery debate, the Atlanta school cheating scandal, the largest [...]

Byline: Greg Toppo A 17-month investigation into possible cheating on standardized tests at Washington, D.C., public schools focused on only one school and did not expand to any other school [...]

In 2006, a math pilot program for middle school students in a Dallas-area district returned surprising results. The students' improved grasp of mathematical concepts stunned Walter Stroup, the University of [...]

The New York State Education Department announced on Thursday that it would hire a team of investigators and lawyers to overhaul and modernize the state's handling of test tampering complaints. [...]

What was Arne Duncan doing sharing the stage with Michelle Rhee at a recent education conference? Mr. Duncan is the education secretary. Ms. Rhee was the chancellor of schools in [...]

Investigators who this year found rampant cheating among Atlanta public school teachers and principals released another report on Tuesday detailing widespread wrongdoing in another Georgia county. Cheating by officials on [...]

The Nassau Country district attorney's office has broadened its inquiry into suspected cheating on college admissions exams to at least 35 students in five schools, including students believed to have [...]

Byline: Marisol Bello and Greg Toppo, USA TODAY Fewer than half the states routinely analyze suspicious numbers of erasures on standardized school tests, a key method of detecting cheating by [...]

ATLANTA -- After a summer of scandal, Michele Alford will welcome her new third-grade class on Monday the way she always has: with a test. After her students realize that [...]

A cheating scandal in which scores of teachers and principals in Atlanta's public schools falsified student test results has thrown the system into chaos and made its name synonymous with [...]

Byline: Greg Toppo, USA TODAY The head of the USA's second-largest teachers union on Monday said local affiliates will defend the rights of teachers caught up in cheating scandals, including [...]

Byline: Greg Toppo, USA TODAY A state probe has found that teachers and principals in dozens of Atlanta public schools doctored students' test papers the latest scandal involving the high-stakes [...]

Byline: John Bacon with staff and wire reports District of Columbia school officials investigated 14 classrooms Thursday for irregularities on standardized tests this year ranging from teachers helping students to [...]

Byline: Greg Toppo and Jack Gillum When Atlanta investigators announced in August that teacher-led cheating on standardized tests appeared to be limited, then-governor Sonny Perdue slammed the investigation as 'woefully [...]

Byline: Jack Gillum and Marisol Bello Former District of Columbia Public Schools chancellor Michelle Rhee says she is '100% supportive' of a broader investigation into standardized test scores in the [...]

The same kind of high erasure rates that have been reported on standardized tests in Washington, D.C., schools also spurred intensive investigations by state and federal authorities in Georgia during [...]

Gov. Sonny Perdue of Georgia said Wednesday that he would appoint a special investigator with subpoena power to look into possible cheating on standardized tests in two public school systems. [...]

ATLANTA -- The Atlanta public school system was substantially vindicated Monday when the results of an independent investigation into cheating on standardized tests were released. The inquiry was the result [...]

The parents of children attending George Washington Elementary School in Baltimore were understandably outraged when they learned last month that someone at the school had altered thousands of answers on [...]

This week, Georgia officials said they had found evidence that cheating might have occurred on standardized tests at one in five public elementary and middle schools around the state. What [...]

Georgia education officials ordered investigations on Thursday at 191 schools across the state where they had found evidence of tampering on answer sheets for the state's standardized achievement test. The [...]

Georgia Green, a music education professor at Baylor University in Waco, Tex., said she did not believe it when a colleague told her in June that Baylor was offering incoming […]

Byline: Melanie Burney Sep. 7--The Camden school system is ushering in a new school year with sweeping changes aimed at boosting student performance by focusing on math and language arts, [...]