Campbell's Law? More News on High Stakes Tests and Cheating

David Berliner and Sharon Nichols told us so. They told us how Campbell's Law applies to high stakes testing programs in our schools. (Campbell's Law states that any time a sociological measure is attached to high stakes consequences, the efforts of people to avoid the high stakes consequences will corrupt the effectiveness of the indicator.

Well....the Dallas Morning News is running a three-part series on "rampant cheating" on the Texas state tests. Clicking the link will take you to Part I. These aren't the short, breezy newspaper articles on education that we're all used to. This is some in-depth investigative reporting.

An interesting note: The reporters found the highest incidence of cheating in charter schools and urban schools. The links below will take you to each part of the report, as long as the paper keeps their links live.

Part I
Part II
Part III
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