[pepsionice]

Bottom line? It really says a lot to who folks hired to be teachers and educators....that they couldn’t take a test on the subjects they teach. But if pull the top layer off...it’s because everyone got into a ‘education-degree’, which basically teaches you how to teach, but didn’t really cover the topic to any significant degree. We all allowed the board of education and the County Superintendent that we elected....to hire weak ‘education-degree’ folks. You could have skated through four years of college and know mostly nothing about topics, but we’ve hired you to teach those topics. So two groups are at fault here.

As for replacing these who are caught cheating? Well....we will find more of the educational-degree folks, with weak backgrounds....to replace them. It’s that simple.

If I may suggest this....you might as well find a fairly smart 20-year old who finished up two years at a community college and has a math-science type degree....to teach strictly math at your local school, and pay the guy a starting pay of $32k a year, and he’d be awful happy. For the next twenty years, the kids would all get a real math professional instead of some ‘educational-degree’ individual.

[hattend]

Seems the whole country is corrupt.

[twister881]

Of course what is unstated is the race of the perps. Any guesses?

[Albion Wilde]

"...a large-scale scandal involving teacher certification tests was discovered in 2000, also in the South... 52 teachers [paid] up to $1,000 apiece to a former Educational Testing Services proctor to ensure a passing grade... Teachers from Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Tennessee and Mississippi took tests through Philander Smith College in Little Rock, Ark., in 1998. The college was not accused of wrongdoing.

How ironic that a cheating scandal involved the name "Philander."

A mind is a terrible thing to waste: Philander Smith College

[skinkinthegrass]

IMHO...actually the FEDS are screaming, "Where's Our Cut"
It's a really just warehousing job...
..when using the NEA Unions thugs..as "enforcers"

[Huskrrrr]

I took the CBEST test in California, to qualify for sub positions. The test is a joke, I could have passed it as a high school senior. Many educators, however, claim it’s too difficult.

[jdsteel]

He’s the tip top of the iceberg.

[freekitty]

Sad. Even the teachers cheat.

[kcvl]

Clarence Mumford Sr

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(WMC-TV) - A son has been indicted for allegedly scamming his way into a teaching job just a month after his father was indicted for heading up a group that investigators say took tests for aspiring teachers. RELATED ITEMS News release on indictment against Clarence Mumford, Jr., and Dante Dowers 

Man accused of orchestrating teacher certification scheme Clarence Mumford, Jr., is accused of having someone else take his PRAXIS exam. Federal prosecutors say he used those test results to become a licensed educator in Tennessee.

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John Bowen, 63, pled guilty to conspiracy to commit mail fraud, wire fraud, Social Security fraud and fraud in connection with identification documents. Bowen admitted he was paid by the scam's ringleader, Clarence Mumford, Sr., to take certification tests under other people's identities.

Mumford, Sr., his son Clarence Mumford, Jr., and Dante Dowers were charged in a 49-count indictment for fraud and aggravated identity theft for charging aspiring teachers in Tennessee, Mississippi and Arkansas $1,500 to $3,000 per test to have stand-ins take the Praxis certification for them. According to the indictment, the scam ran from 1995 to March 2010.

Bowen stated at his hearing he met Mumford, Sr. during the 1994-95 school year while he was a substitute teacher at Humes High School, where Mumford was the assistant principal. Bowen said he had three or four tests per year since 2000 and was paid hundreds of dollars for each test. Investigators eventually caught Bowen in 2009 when he took two tests under two identities on the same day at Arkansas State University in Jonesboro. Other test takers hired by Mumford were also present at the time doing the same thing.

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Man in Teaching Fraud Scandal Gets DUI Trial Continuance Tunica County, Ms -

A day after being indicted and accused of acting as the ringleader of a 3-state teacher test-taking scheme, Clarence Mumford did not come to court in Tunica County, Mississippi. He was arrested by sheriff's deputies there in April after being picked up at a Robinsonville convenience store for DUI and indecent exposure. Mumford's trial in that case, set for Wednesday, has been continued. Meanwhile his Federal case in Memphis is just getting started. .

[Chode]

and the RATS, take another one in the.........HA ha!!!

[martin_fierro]

Among those charged is former University of Tennessee and NFL wide receiver Cedrick Wilson, who is accused of employing a test-taker for a Praxis physical education exam.

Geez, how hard could that have been?

[Mamzelle]

Would love some photos of these despicables..

[bannie]

When Clinton’s lie became a joke...why worry?

[BobL]

I went to a doctor once. Obviously they asked for ID, but they also took a picture of me. Wouldn’t it be nice if the people administering these tests also could find a way to take a nice, pretty, picture of each stand-in, sorry, I mean future teacher.

[BobL]

“Prosecutors and standardized test experts...”

Johnny, what do you want to be when you grow up.

(in a high-pitched voice) “I want to be a Standardized Test Expert”.

If people want to know why this country is sinking by the day, one only has to look at career options...like this one.

[BobL]

“Teachers from Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Tennessee and Mississippi took tests through PHILANDER Smith College...” (emphasis mine)

No, NOTHING in that name suggests cheating. One has to be an ABSOLUTE IDIOT to even believe a college with that name exists - much less accept any test scores coming from them.

[WKB]

Mississippi ping

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