Jay Mathews piqued my interest with his Freedom of Information request for wrong-to-right erasures on D.C.’s yearly student assessment.

It’s exactly the kind of information that has turned up test-tampering scandals in the past, where teachers go back and “help” students improve their scores.

I wanted to do the same request for our state, but I face a dilemma: Hawaii’s students now take an electronic assessment, so there are no “erasures,” per se.

But there may be an electronic equivalent, and I’ve put in the appropriate email to our test designers at American Institutes for Research.