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Former Atlanta Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Beverly Hall Difficult To Find In Report’s Wake

07/07/2011 1:16 pm 1 comment

As parents of students in Atlanta’s public schools learn more about widespread allegations of cheating on the CRCT, the woman in charge of the school system at the time has become difficult to track down.

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Dear Roland,

While I am glad that cheating on school testing is being exposed what can be done to make some other metric besides just test scores matter for school performance. Would it be worth measuring student behaviors, post high school employment, parent involvement, increased participation in volunteer activities, better health and other things besides test scores. This would be one way to keep the Beverly Halls of the world from gaming the system, lying and saying anyone who questioned her results of hurting poor black children when really she was the one hurting them. Our politicians hailed her as a hero but we know they are about the last people our children should emulate.

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