This blog on Texas education contains posts on accountability, testing, K-12 education, postsecondary educational attainment, dropouts, bilingual education, immigration, school finance, environmental issues, Ethnic Studies at state and national levels. It also represents my digital footprint, of life and career, as a community-engaged scholar in the College of Education at the University of Texas at Austin.
Thursday, April 26, 2012
Eissler and Hochberg on TAKS and STAAR
Great interview by the Texas Tribune with Representatives Eissler and Hochberg.
A notable ending comment by Rep. Hochberg: "We built the concept of this whole accountability system on the concept that the numbers that those tests give us mean something, and we know that the numbers that those tests give us mean almost nothing for kids that are going to consistently score above the pass mark. In fact, we know that those kids are going to pass 98% of the time the next year."
-Patricia
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