"Let's Make Texas Public Education Public"
Some Texas Public School Superintendents Want to Use the CSCOPE Lessons. Following are comments from different Texas School Superintendents. These comments, reported by Casey Stinnett in the Eastex Advocate Online News are not true. Instead of removing CSCOPE lessons from Texas schools, Senator Patrick’s bargain with the CSCOPE vendor resulted in allowing schools to download [...]
What To Do Without CSCOPE? Some superintendents are at a loss without CSCOPE. They are scurrying around like chickens without their heads. Without the lessons, the CSCOPE Vendors are lowering their price for their Gutted CSCOPE Product. Have the CSCOPE Vendors brought out their Survival Plan yet? I am guessing that they will. I’ll be [...]
Did your Child Fail Because of the STAAR Test? Students can be awarded certificates for being on the school honor roll all year and then told they failed because of grades on the state test called STAAR. Some honor roll students are being required to attend summer school to take make-up classes in a subject [...]
What is the Purpose of the STAAR/EOC Tests? The TEKS and STAAR/EOC tests are suppose to raise the level of education in Texas. Well, how is it working? As far as I can determine, the only thing being raised is the amount of money being spent on the tests and my blood pressure. What Value [...]
Hello, Where Did Knowledge Go? http://www.publiceddread.com/2009/05/hello-where-did-knowledge-go.html It is not necessary to know facts in order to reason about those facts. So say the progressive education movers and shakers who continue to implement bad ideas and a few good ideas badly. They say they’re concerned with bigger things like higher-level thinking skills, so little interest is paid [...]
INSIDE THE TEXAS CAPITOL – Kara Sands is a concerned mother who has paid her own travel expenses to Austin with hopes of persuading Texas legislatures to straighten up Education Messes they have created. For example, Senate bill 6 allows school superintendents to use textbook money to purchase unapproved instructional material, such as CSCOPE. Please [...]
Parents, you cannot trust educators to teach your children: Christian Values When I started teaching at Lamar H.S. in Houston, Texas (1966) the school secretary ask me to raise my right hand and pledge that I believed in God (understood to be Jesus Christ) and that I was not nor ever had been part of [...]
Physical Characteristics of Poison Ivy Poison Ivy’s biological generic name is Toxicodendron radicans. Toxicodendron has two parts from comes from the Greek: toxico means poisonous, and dendron means plant or tree. Radicans refers to a plant that has roots growing from its stem. Poison Ivy has three distinct forms: 1. a hairy-like vine that climbs trees [...]
How Can Honor Roll Students Fail the STAAR? The answer to this question is easy, what kids are being taught and how they are taught doesn’t prepare them for the state tests called STAARs. I know Texas teachers whose students do not fail the STAAR tests. This is because these teachers are allowed to teach, [...]
A Teacher Would Not Say This
Attacking Comment The following comments were sent as if from a teacher, but I think it comes from a CSCOPE director or school administrator. I base my hypothesis on my trust that teachers are smarter than CSCOPE directors or school administrators who purchase CSCOPE. The comments are in response to an article I wrote about [...]