Former Atlanta Schools Chief: 'I Can't Make You Cheat'

Tuesday, November 29, 2011 Former Atlanta Schools Chief: 'I Can't Make You Cheat' In her first official television interview since investigators uncovered one of the largest cheating scandals in public school history, former Atlanta Public Schools Superintendent Beverly Hall said she takes responsibility for not recognizing the need for heightened test security, but doesn't acknowledge personal accountability for the individual cheating teachers or the scandal as a whole. "I can't make you cheat. Nothing that I could ask of you ... would be an excuse for you to cheat," Hall told NBC's Harry Smith on Rock Center. "We did not emphasize testing at the expense of integrity." WHEN I GROW UP Chicago Teachers Express Concern Over New Evaluation System WaPo Education Columnist Provides Favorable Coverage To For-Profit College Company Owned By WaPo 12-Year-Old Plays Trumpet On Street To Pay For School Drug War Sends Emotionally Troubled Kids To Texas BLOG POSTS Elissa Kravetz: Confessions of a Publicist Who Woke Up I used to work 20 hour days, every day, yell at my staff, make my partners crazy, and the truth is none of it really matters. I've been seeking a greater truth and going from Barneys to Soho House just wasn't doing it. Douglas Anthony Cooper: My Girlfriend Studies Vampires. At Harvard. Vampire science is already poaching some of the best. The woman who teaches vampires at Harvard is a serious scholar of Romantic English literature. Now, Lord Byron did in fact invoke the undead in "The Giaour." But don't kid yourself: it's still a huge and weird notional leap to go from Byron Studies to Vampire Studies. David Katz, M.D.: Pizza as a Vegetable? Thanks, But No Thanks! Good health is perennially on the list of reasons any family has to be thankful, and food is among the most potent of influences on health. The differential effects of pizza and a mixed green salad on health don't change just because politicians play around with the lexicon. David Theo Goldberg: The University We Are For? It is the combination of spiraling long-term student debt, crimped educational support, and diminished prospects of attractive work opportunities that folks have been protesting. Who can blame them? C. M. Rubin: The Global Search for Education: Student Well Being Given the intense competition to be accepted, is Cambridge, a world-renowned academic institution, seeing an increase in student anxiety and stress?

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