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Robert 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...

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TAKS, 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,...

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Texas’ ACT scores

In the last few weeks, we’ve seen informative, but worrisome stories about how many Texas students require remedial classes at college and how few Dallas students actually master their subjects. At...

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Texas Projection Measure killed for 2011 school ratings

This just in from the Texas Education Agency (ah, I love a good Friday afternoon press release before a holiday weekend): The commissioner has determined that the use of the (Texas Projection Measure)...

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Another superintendent cites school testing ‘perversion’

Now comes an email from the superintendent of Hudson ISD, near Lufkin, forwarding a statement she sent to her local paper about standardized testing mandated out of Austin. Mary Ann Whiteker says she...

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