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Rutger Plak, a senior digital forensics expert at Dutch security firm Fox-IT, told me that he and his colleagues performed some non-academic data erasure tests on SSDs to see if they could be used internally for their work instead of HDDs for example for collecting evidence from customer machines during digital forensics and incident response engagements.
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A state review this year found an unusually high number of erasures on tests taken in 2009, suggesting teachers might have corrected students' answers.
Then, last March, USA Today published the results of a yearlong investigation of the Washington schools that found a high rate of erasures on tests as well as suspiciously large gains at 41 schools — one-third of the elementary and middle schools in the district.
Answer-sheets in some classrooms found wrong-to-right erasures on test sheets that had standard deviations 20 to 50 times above the state norm.
Mr. Stancik stood by his findings in Ms. Ballantine's case yesterday, saying that his investigators had originally suspected all of I.S. 450 because of high numbers of erasures on test sheets, but had been able to substantiate cheating only in her class and in the class of a colleague.
At Parks and at one of its feeder schools, there were suspicious erasure marks on tests from more than seventy-five per cent of the classrooms.
And Washington, D.C., where 191 teachers at 70 schools were implicated in a rash of wrong-to-right erasure marks on tests, uses every single security measure.
The investigative team ferretted out cheating by analysing erasure marks on test sheets.
After the panel discussion, an executive for a testing security company suggested she ask state officials if they had done a study flagging schools with suspicious numbers of erasures on state tests.
Allegations of cheating have dogged Ms. Rhee — now a lightning rod in education circles for her advocacy through StudentsFirst, a nonprofit group she founded — since an investigation by USA Today found high rates of erasures on standardized tests at a Washington elementary school.
Because I spent three years chronicling the tenure of Michelle Rhee in Washington, D.C. -- another city with a spate of thus-far-unexplained 'wrong to right' erasures on standardized tests -- I am interested in this story.
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