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By: Tonya Mead, CFE, CHFI, PI, MBA,MA Educational Psychology The Office of Inspector General is auditing the four year graduation rate of students attending public secondary schools in Alabama and California. In previous years the student graduation rates of Washington State and South Dakota were audited. Innocent school level data-related errors were cited by the […]
By: Tonya Mead, CFE, CHFI, PI, MBA, MA Educational Psychology There has been such an uproar about fake news surfacing on the internet, television and radio. Some wonder whether anything we can’t see, hear, taste or touch for ourselves is really real. Now it looks like we may need to add fake research to our […]
By: Tonya Mead, CFE, PI, MBA, MA Educational Psychology The Maryland State Board of Education is investigating a whistleblower complaint alleging the alteration of student grades and credits for the purpose of misrepresenting graduation rates. This is not a new phenomenon. School employees as well as students manipulate grades to increase GPAs, graduate, pass a […]
By: Tonya Mead, CFE, PI, MBA, MA Educational Psychology Yesterday, WannaCry threatened to impact the global internet infrastructure. In May, computer security experts warned of the second biggest ransomware attacks, ever. [WP, headline, May 14]. Other articles you may find of interest Post- Hack to prove enrollment Post- Cyber scammers target schools Post- Botnet grade […]
By: Tonya Mead, CFE, PI, MBA, MA Educational Psychology Computer information systems in the education sector remain susceptible to hacking by insiders and outsiders. Most often for financial gain, and for other times just to change a grade from “F” to “B.” Reasons why the incident at the University of Central Florida raises heightened alarms […]
By: Tonya Mead, CFE, PI, MBA,MA Educational Psychology What might a school leader do to lower the risk of fraud, data and computer-assisted crime in her school building? Negative school climate adversely impacts adults too. Stabilize your building. Find ways to reduce social upheavals brought about by re-structuring, school reform, and reduction-in-force initiatives. Structural upheavals present […]
This blog is curated to serve as a resource for the exploration of fraud, computer-assisted and data related crime in the education sector. Taxpayers invest $603.7 billion for public education annually. Venture capitalists contribute almost $2.0 billion forecasting significant investment gains each year. These funds support 100,000 schools and 7,200 colleges in the education of […]
By Clifford Eberhardt, Ed.D In a recent conversation with one of my graduate students, who is also a teacher in the public school system, we discussed a student’s achievement problem she was having with one of her students, and I ended up giving her advice on a problem. She had concerns about why a certain […]