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Book Review | Shani Robinson and Anna Simonton’s None of the Above: The Untold Story of the Atlanta Public Schools Cheating Scandal, Corporate Greed, and the Criminalization of Educators by Kathryn Bateman

Shani Robinson, an Atlanta native, was a first-grade teacher in 2009 at Dunbar Elementary School in Atlanta Georgia, but by 2013, was a convicted felon facing twenty-five years in prison for racketeering charges from an alleged district-wide cheating scandal. None of the Above: The Untold Story of the Atlanta Public Schools Cheating Scandal, Corporate Greed,

The rise of the cram school phenomenon in the US: well intended test prep or an extension of the “banking model” of education? by Natasha Mansur

Searching for a job as an international student, I felt drawn to education services to work with children. An elementary school in Bronx, New York became the first site where I worked for a non-profit organization serving a resource-poor neighborhood. I remember the feeling of excitement, as we would gather with students in the school

Caution for data misuse by Jing Liu

The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) has triggered increased attention to the uses of performance data related to student test scores, graduation rates, and other indicators of school and teacher quality. As the misuse of data emerging, we as future researchers should always be skeptical with the policy reports and related studies before