McGraw Hill Wants $263,000 From State
Pat Kossan,
Arizona Republic,
Jun 04, 2002
This item raises so many issues I just had to run it, even though it doesn't deal directly with online learning (saving grace: the article does contain the word 'website'). In brief: because so many students were failing a standard exam, one slated to become a graduation requirement, a court ordered McGraw Hill to release the questions. No problem. But after even more failures the State of Arizona went ahead and released even more questions (on its website - see, there's the magid word). Big problem: the questions weren't rizona's to release, and now McGraw Hill is suing. So many questions here: should exam questions ever be secret after the fact? Should the state not have the right to release the questions it is using in its own tests? Should a company that makes money offering online (and therefore supplemental) learning services be (secretly) testing (and failing) students at all? All this and copyrights too!
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