"Let's Make Texas Public Education Public"
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 [...]
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, [...]
[5.18.13 -- John Griffing will be interviewed this week on Fox News regarding CSCOPE. Also, an excellent article was written by Peggy Venable and published in today’s Longview News-Journal, Longview, Texas -- “CSCOPE or C-SCAM?” - Donna Garner] WORLD NET DAILY THREAT OF SUBPOENA PRODUCES TEXAS CURRICULUM RECORDS State senator examining pages of financial documentation [...]
Reasons Superintendents and School Board Members Give for Purchasing CSCOPE Rockwall Superintendent Bailey says that the CSCOPE tool provided many benefits to the district that were lacking. For example: X 1. CSCOPE was developed by Texas teachers for Texas teachers that brought the pacing needed to cover all the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) curriculum content required by the [...]
CSCOPE Is Hurting Children by Depriving Them Of A Quality Education. Discover This For Yourself There will be five parts to this series that match the five parts of what is called a 5E Lesson. Part 1 is the introduction of the lesson called Engage. The CSCOPE Engage part of a kindergarten lesson on energy is [...]
In 2009-2010, the ESCs who own TESCCC received about $50 million to develop and present teacher training for science and ELAR TEKS. The first training sessions were offered in the summer of 2010. This was important because teachers would be developing their science and ELAR lessons around these new Texas standards called TEKS. Few teachers [...]
Texas Teachers Speak Out Posted 26th March by Jerusalem Prayer Team Texas school teacher, Mary Bowen, recently responded to a question by Glenn Beck, saying, “The majority of (Texas) teachers feel that CSCOPE provides instruction that is very mediocre.” Both she and Stan Hartzler appeared on Beck’s program to help raise awareness of the creeping changes [...]
There are so many things about public education that I wonder about: 1. Why are veteran teachers leaving as soon as possible? CSCOPE promotes the idea that veteran teachers are trouble makers. Let’s all hope so, because these are the teachers that are trying to help your children. 2. Why do high school Texas football stadiums get [...]
CSCOPE Is Not Gone
Yes! TESCCC promised to remove the CSCOPE lessons by August, 2013. But, the TESCCC has promised to do lots of things and as yet few promises have been kept. TESCCC is requesting that superintendents have teachers copy the CSCOPE lessons. These superintendents don’t have what it takes to Cowboy up and tell TESCCC to shove [...]