No child left behind.
No Child Left Behind is precisely what exposed this. Unless these “teachers” had been subjected to standardized tests, they wouldn’t even have pretended to be teaching.
Actually, I shouldn’t blame all the teachers: the really culpable ones are the administrators, who mistrusted and undervalued their teachers and kids so much they thought they’d never be able to reach the (very modest) standards without cheating.
I heard some liberal blame this on Bush and the No Child Left Behind law. They said that because the standardized test scores are the most important factor in measuring school quality and student achievement,that schools teach to the test and everything revolves around that.
That may be somewhat true, however, does anything justify cheating on the tests,even though we hear complaints about teaching to the test????