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Students were given correct answers to state-wide skills tests, investigators say educators even held cheating parties, where incorrect answers were erased and corrected. the cheating may date back to early 2001 when scores on statewide skills tests began to turn around. my goodness. that really defeats the purpose of the standardized testing. it's supposed to gauge where the schools are. and see which schools are troubled and to infuse more resources into those. >> chris and i are children of educators this is one of those head-shakers. >> let me may i say, so am i? the daughter of two publ...

Basically, what we've done is we've created a teaching job that is not that attractive to the sort of people we say we want to be teachers. we say we want the most ambitious college graduates who have options to go into any other career, to teach. but then, basically, what we've done is we've created a system that's very based on standardized testing, that doesn't offer teachers a lot of leadership, doesn't offer them a lot of creativity. the amazing thing to me, when i was reporting my book, is how many amazing teachers still take us up on this bargain because they love kids, they're passiona...

>> they're very hard! it's very hard to teach in a really underresourced and in a community that's struggling with all sorts of issues. what do you think about the broader idea, that essentially the things standing between us and education, nirvana, are the bad teachers and how hard it is to fire bad teachers? >> it's a really faulty idea. basically, what we've done is created a teaching job that is not that attractive to the sort of people we want to be teachers. we say we want the most ambitious college graduates who have options to go into any other career to teach. but then, basically, wha...

Broader idea, that essentially the things standing between us and education, nirvana, are the bad teachers and how hard it is to fire bad teachers? >> it's a really faulty idea. basically, what we've done is created a teaching job that is not that attractive to the sort of people we want to be teachers. we say we want the most ambitious college graduates who have options to go into any other career to teach. but then, basically, what we've done is we've created a system that's very based on standardized testing, that doesn't offer teachers a lot of leadership, doesn't offer them a lot of creat...

System, how we limit students and students are ready for challenges and advancement and we limit them by the use of these tests without looking at a who are ho wholistic understanding of that child. >> in schools, we learn how to take a test and we take the test. and then depending how go, we feel really stupid or really smart. this is what you write about. you say, with all this reevaluae have little time left for inspiration, little time left to explore the full range of possible roles in life and see which really activates us. i'm with you. i was not the biggest fan of standardized testing....