When Standardized Test Scores Soared in D.C., Were the Gains Real?

A USA Today investigation found that for the past three school years most of Crosby S. Noyes Education Campus classrooms had extraordinarily high numbers of erasures on standardized tests. The consistent pattern was that wrong answers were erased and changed to right ones. Noyes is one of 103 public schools that have had erasure rates that surpassed D.C. averages at least once since 2008. That's more than half of D.C. schools. Jack Gillum and Marisol Bello, USA Today, March 28, 2011