Big Media Picks Up On Theme Of George Scott Reports That Says State’s New STAAR and End Of Course Testing Will Be Unmitigated Disaster
By Gary Scharrer AUSTIN — A new school accountability system is already creating anxiety for some educators and business leaders — not to mention students who will face much harder tests with high school graduation riding on the outcome. The new State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness, or STAAR, is replacing the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills, or TAKS, starting this spring. STAAR...
Principles To Guide The Path Forward To Reform
This document is not ‘light reading.’ The subject of public education is too important for the acquiescent acceptance of the status quo to continue. It is true that the emotions that can attach to the subjects can be intense. However, there has never been a time in our community’s (or the nation’s) development that the need to face important issues with courage and strength of purpose to do...
State’s STAAR Test Will Be Unmitigated Disaster For Credibility Of TEA, Legislature, School Districts, Vendor Pimp Corporations, Consultants; Analysis Of KISD Semester Tests Show Ticking Time Bomb Of Pending Disgrace For Them
Stupidity on steroids. That’s the only way to describe what the evil empire of the public education industrial complex led by the Texas Education Agency has done to itself by the way it is rolling out its new accountability test - STAAR. When the TEA is forced to announce the results of testing this spring, the bottom line will be the unmitigated disaster these results will impose upon exposing...
Morton Ranch High School - College Enrollment & First Year Performance Indicators
Significantly more 2010 Morton Ranch High School graduates enrolled in the fall after their high school graduation in two-year community colleges in Texas than attended the state’s four-year universities, according to data released by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB). The same report notes that the percentage of MRHS students who could not be found or tracked as having enrolled...
The Texas Education Agency & Your Local School District Could Tell You The Definitive Truth About Your High School’s And District’s College Board AP Performance Results But They Don’t & They Won’t; Let’s Go Inside Fort Bend I.S.D. To See The Level Of ‘Deceptive’ Truth Parents Get From System
All across the nation and sweeping into Texas public schools, The College Board’s Advanced Placement course and testing program is deteriorating in quality and productivity moving further away from the service it has provided so well for so long. The AP program’s thesis is that it provides the brightest, most academically advanced high school students genuine college-level rigor courses and gives...
Texas Education Agency, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, Texas Legislature, & Your School District Could Tell You With Great Precision How The Graduates Of Your High Schools Perform In College; You Should Consider The Meaning Of Governments That Could But Won’t Reveal
Imagine yourself as a keen fan of horse racing eagerly watching television coverage of the big race to see how your favorite horse (and bet) turned out. “Ladies and gentlemen, the big field is at the starting gate including the odds on choice to take this race Tomorrow’s Favorite. However, it’s a promising field in which the world’s top jockey is aboard long shot Yesterday’s Fade. Anything...
Raines High School - College Enrollment & First Year Performance Indicators
While Raines High School is undergoing a major expansion of its facility and programs, data from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board document that the vast majority of students who graduate from the campus do not attend college - even a community college - and the vast majority of those that enrolled after graduation in 2009 and 2010 do not fair well in their first year of higher education. The...
Cinco Ranch High School - College Enrollment & First Year Performance
A significantly higher percentage of 2010 Cinco Ranch High School graduates enrolled in the fall after their high school graduation in four-year universities in Texas than attended the state’s two-year colleges, according to data released by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB). The same report notes that the percentage of CRHS students who could not be found or tracked as having...
Mayde Creek High School - College Enrollment & First Year Performance Indicators
More 2010 Mayde Creek High School graduates enrolled in the fall after their high school graduation in two-year community colleges in Texas than attended the state’s four-year universities, according to data released by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB). The same report notes that the percentage of MCHS students who could not be found or tracked as having enrolled in a Texas college...
Katy High School - College Enrollment & First Year Performance Indicators
More 2010 Katy High School graduates enrolled in the fall after their high school graduation in two-year community colleges in Texas than attended the state’s four-year universities in a virtual flip-flop of the statistics from the 2001-02 academic year, according to data released by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB). Further, in a separate but most current report available on...