Cheating on NCLB tests? Maybe.

Cheating on NCLB tests? Maybe. Some school districts and states appear to be cheating on testscores to meet achievement requirements under the No Child Left Behindlaw, and legislators will look into it when they considerreauthorization of NCLB NCLB No Child Left Behind (US education initiative)this year. Rep. George Miller George Miller may refer to: George Miller (comedian) (c. 1942–2003), comic George Miller (footballer), Liberian professional football player George Miller (Latter Day Saints), nineteenth century leader in the Latter Day Saint movement, third ordained bishop of (D-Calif.), new chair of the House ofRepresentatives Committee on Education and the Workforce, feels thecheating issue "ought to be part of the mix" during thereauthorization debate, says his spokesman, Tom Kiley. "Anycheating is going to undermine the core goal of the law, which isaccountability and making sure that every student is proficient,"Kiley says. But other authorities are more cautious about whether cheating isworthy of federal involvement. "It's up to the states toaddress it," says Chad Colby, a spokesman for the U.S. Departmentof Education. "It's the people who administer the tests whohave to be vigilant." "We haven't heard that this is a widespread issue interms of NCLB or state accountability systems," declares Alex Nock nock?n.1. The groove at either end of a bow for holding the bowstring.2. The notch in the end of an arrow that fits on the bowstring.tr.v. nocked, nock��ing, nocks1. ,director of the independent, bipartisan Commission on No Child LeftBehind. "We went around the country talking to Noun 1. talking to - a lengthy rebuke; "a good lecture was my father's idea of discipline"; "the teacher gave him a talking to"lecture, speechrebuke, reprehension, reprimand, reproof, reproval - an act or expression of criticism and censure; "he had to a lot of folks abouta lot of things and this wasn't one of the topics that anybodyspent any time talking about." Reports of manipulation of test scores have popped up across thecountry, although authorities are wary of calling it cheating. In NewJersey, state officials say administrators and teachers who ignored testrules caused numerous test violations at two Camden elementary schools elementary school:see school. in 2004-05. Violations included giving students more time on tests andletting them use calculators for math questions. The Camden SchoolDistrict has since developed a security plan to block "adultinterference" in testing. The plan includes rigorous training fortest administrators, more monitoring, and more attention to handlingtest booklets. Meanwhile, the state attorney general is conducting a criminalprobe of the issue as well as alleged fiscal irregularities in thedistrict. New Jersey is one of 12 states that have reported"significantly higher" percentages of fourth-gradersproficient in reading and math compared with the percentages of studentsfound to be proficient under the National Assessment of EducationalProgress The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), also known as "the Nation's Report Card," is the only nationally representative and continuing assessment of what America's students know and can do in various subject areas. . The differences were revealed in a study by Policy Analysis forCalifornia Education (PACE), an independent research center at theUniversity of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley is a public research university located in Berkeley, California, United States. Commonly referred to as UC Berkeley, Berkeley and Cal , UC Davis and Stanford University Stanford University,at Stanford, Calif.; coeducational; chartered 1885, opened 1891 as Leland Stanford Junior Univ. (still the legal name). The original campus was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. David Starr Jordan was its first president. ."We did not look at the issue of cheating. We did look at howstates try to game the system a bit. Part of it is probably due toteaching to the tests," says Bruce Fuller, a PACE director at UCBerkeley. But he acknowledges that "a little of it might be due tocheating."