Yearly Texas school ratings to be released this afternoon
The state is scheduled to release annual school and school district academic ratings at 1 p.m. today. The Texas Education Agency rates campuses and school systems based mainly on TAKS scores. This...
View ArticleRobert Scott’s big decision: How much growth is sufficient?
Here’s the most important decision facing Texas that you’ve never heard of: The call that Texas Education Commissioner Robert Scott must make to determine how much a student must “grow” each year in a...
View ArticleTAKS, TPM and telling the two apart
On a very related note to Bill’s last post… I’ve been up to my eyeballs in state school ratings. The buzz this year is all about the “Texas Projection Measure,” which is, depending upon whom you ask,...
View ArticleHiring school dropouts
Robert Scott has gotten beat up since he suggested last week that employers shouldn’t hire Texas dropouts. Texas’ education commissioner wasn’t asking for a state law to ban the practice, but rather...
View ArticleMore conflicting data: Texas’ Advanced Placement scores go up
The Texas Education Agency announced last week that significantly more Texas students earned higher scores on their Advanced Placement tests in the 2008-2009 school year than over the previous year....
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Texas gets an A for standards. So what’s with the D+?
About those national standards that Texas proudly refuses to adopt… Today the Texas Education Agency issued a “See, … [visit site to read more]
View ArticleTEA must “restore meaning to school rating labels”
So says the Austin Chamber of Commerce in a provocative new blog post. The group takes aim at the Texas Projection Measure, the controversial tool that boosts school ratings by counting students who...
View ArticleRobert Scott makes the right call on the Texas Projection Measure
Texas Education Commissioner Robert Scott made a really great move last week when he announced the state would no longer use the Texas Projection Measure in ranking schools. The TPM projects how well...
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Richardson superintendent: ‘Different approach’ needed for student testing
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