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Sunday, August 5, 2012

Schools Matter: Texas Orders Up a New Test to Solve Problems Created by 32 Years of Testing

Schools Matter: Texas Orders Up a New Test to Solve Problems Created by 32 Years of Testing:


Texas Orders Up a New Test to Solve Problems Created by 32 Years of Testing

Texas has been been doing more of the same standardized testing and expecting different results (see Einstein's definition of insanity) for 32 years now, and the children of the Lone Star state are as poor, malnourished, and miseducated as ever.  One in four lives in poverty, just as one in four Texans has no health insurance. Poverty rates jumped by 9 percent in the last U. S. Census, while the national average was a 6 percent rise.

State officials of the Higher Education Commission describe Texas ACT scores as "pathetic," and based on NAEP, the gold standard in the test score derby, Texas continues to languish near the bottom of the state