Cheating our children: Suspect scores put award’s integrity in question

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By Alan Judd, Heather Vogell and John Perry

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution 

"Second in a series: Last month, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution published an unprecedented investigation into test scores that found signs of potential cheating nationwide. Today, we examine schools that won the prestigious Blue Ribbon Award. These schools, the AJC found, were more than three times as likely as all schools to exhibit extreme score gains the year they applied for the honor.

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