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...sweeping indictment of the entire system." Still, the temptation to cheat seems to be growing among teachers, who are being held accountable if their students don't measure up. "Anytime you have this kind of mounting pressure about getting children to a standard," says New York City's school chancellor, Rudy Crew, "it shouldn't come as any wonder that there are going to be people who will find a creative way of cheating." Crew argues that such incidents do not mean the tests should be abandoned, though others disagree. "The country has gone test crazy," says Robert Schaeffer...
...scores because of improper help from teachers, such as telling students to "sit next to the smart kid" during testing. Last year 40 cases of educator cheating were brought before Georgia's standards commission, compared with only three the previous year. The state of Texas is currently investigating 38 schools because of a high number of erasures on the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills. That crackdown follows the indictment last spring of an Austin school district for tampering with the results of the state test. And in Chicago, a high school English teacher was fired this year after he published...
ERICA BRAY, 20, a junior at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, wrote this week's story on nonprofit holiday shopping. She is wrapping up her TIME internship in New York City this month...
...motivations. When you read what was going on in their minds, you will be frightened and sickened, but you will understand better the twisted motives that drove them. We were also given access to much of the evidence collected by investigators, including videotape of the gunmen taken by a school security camera, which provides a clearer picture of what actually happened...
Klebold and Harris say on the tapes that they did not want to be seen as copycats and that they were planning their own horror before other school shootings made news. Nevertheless, we had to wrestle with whether running a picture of them might seem, perversely, to glorify them to other twisted minds or give them the publicity they wanted, even though they are dead...