False Data on Student Performance

Here's a NYT editorial on cooking the books.

A distressing example emerged last week in a study of graduation rates by the Education Trust, a nonpartisan foundation in Washington. For the second year in a row, the Education Trust has found that many states are cooking the books on graduation rates - using unorthodox calculation methods or ignoring students who drop out. Some states submitted no graduation data at all.

The NYT isn't that upset.They will not put it on the front page day after day like some Enron scandal.NewYorkTimes