These are the unintended consequences of well-intentioned standards-and-accountability education reforms.
His score could determine whether the school was deemed adequate or
failing—whether it received government funding or got shut down.
DiMaggio soon learned that his boss was a temp like him. In fact, the boss was only the team leader because he'd once managed a Target store.
DiMaggio found out that the human resources woman who'd hired them
both was a temp. He realized that their office space—filled with long
tables lined with several hundred computer monitors and generic office
chairs—was rented.
Eventually, DiMaggio got used to not asking questions. He got used to
skimming the essays as fast as possible, glancing over the responses
for about two minutes apiece before clicking a score.
Every so often, though, his thoughts would drift to the school in Arkansas or Ohio or Pennsylvania. If they only knew what was going on behind the scenes.
"The legitimacy of testing is being taken for granted," he says. "It's a farce."
Every so often, though, his thoughts would drift to the school in Arkansas or Ohio or Pennsylvania. If they only knew what was going on behind the scenes.
"The legitimacy of testing is being taken for granted," he says. "It's a farce."
- Inside the multimillion-dollar essay-scoring business,
(All emphasis mine)
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