The D.C. Inspector General is satisfied that there was no systemwide cheating. The office investigated Noyes campus and found that maybe there was a teacher or two who might have cheated.
The U.S. Department of Education seconded the nearly clean bill of health offered up by the DC IG.
But here are the actual scores of the Noyes school, compiled by retired DC teacher Erich Martel and posted on G.F. Brandenburg’s blog. Those retired DC teachers are plenty smart.
Look at those scores: First they soar up, then they plummet down.
Nothing suspicious there, right?
And apparently that is not the only school in D.C. where scores rose and fall in ways that suggest systematic tampering.
This is a scandal that will not die. There is too much evidence left on the table.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Bravo Erich! Although ‘retired’, Erich has starred a second career of collecting data, writing, posting, and testifying at DC Council hearings. Thanks to both of them for a job that needs to be done and for a job well-done!
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Can someone petition a superior official to reopen this OBVIOUSLY DELIBERATELY BOTCHED investigation???
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He was really not looking for wrong doing.He was told what to investigate and how to investigate by Kaya Henderson. I’m surprised he found what he did at Noyes. See this column and others by Jay Matthews (his wife worked on the USA Today series).
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/class-struggle/post/dc-schools-cheating-report-thin-and-biased/2012/08/11/569d3f5c-e40d-11e1-a25e-15067bb31849_blog.html
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I hope you’re right… but if you read Matt Taibbi’s column in the Rolling Stone about the lies and deceit that surrounded and continues to surround the government’s handling of Wall Street you might be disheartened… I don’t think the DC schools, USDOE, the “reformers”, or the mainstream media want to undercut the narrative Michelle Rhee has spun… after all, if the DC “miracle” is bogus maybe all of the testing we are doing is a waste of money and THEN where would we be?
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I agree with wgersen.
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Kind of like the texas miracle and florida miracle have been upended? That didn’t seem to change anything.
It’s full steam ahead for many of us.
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And what would be at the center?
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Now, this is the only proper use of standardized data results that I have seen in decades.
Wow … The title of this episode in the ongoing “rhee-form” saga is … “When the data you worship comes back to haunt you”.
I agree with you, Dr. Ravitch. This is not over and it’s not only D.C.’s problem.
Do I hear the distant sounds of shredders as we speak?
Thank you Erich for your painstaking efforts in the fight against overwhelming forces.
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The solution is change the name from Noyes School to Lance Armstrong School.
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Unfortunately, Rhee will not get nailed. After all, she only told principals they had to raise test scores … or else. Oh, no siree! She did not tell them to cheat!
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Reblogged this on Transparent Christina.
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When fraud is tolerated, civilization crumbles. That is why it is uplifting that no steroid users have been admitted to the baseball hall of fame, and that Lance Armstrong has been banned from cycling. The most important lesson that the students of D.C. could be taught is that CHEATERS NEVER PROSPER. Any teachers or principles that tampered with tests for financial gain must be held accountable.
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This is startling. I printed it out to share with other teachers at my school.
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