12:53 pm Wed April 3, 2013  'Anger' In Atlanta As Cheating
Scandal Investigated  Originally published on Fri April 5, 2013
7:01 am    This is TELL ME MORE, from NPR News. I'm Michel
Martin. Later in the program, we will bring you a poetic tweet.
That's a poem of 140 characters or less, sent by none other than
the celebrated Nikki Giovanni. It's part of our celebration of
National Poetry Month, and we'll hear it in a few minutes and
you'll find out how you can contribute, too, if you'd like.
That's later.  But first, we want to talk about cheating in
standardized testing. As you've probably heard by now, some 35
educators in Atlanta were indicted last week over suspicious
test results there, dating back to 2005. The allegations follow
years of reporting from local newspapers, detective work by
state investigators, and testimony before a grand jury that
alleged that teachers and administrators changed incorrect
answers as a way to raise test scores.  In just a few minutes,
we are going to hear about a previous