Category: Accountability

• Texas: The butt of many jokes

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  October 11, 2012

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  Accountability, Standards

  I am still jetlagged from the INVALSI Accountability conference in Rome. My body is telling me it is noon right now. However, it is only 6 a.m. That explains the early morning post about standards. From the very start Texas declined to participate in the Common Core Standards— clearly national standards are a threat to…

  

• It will take 80 more years…

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  October 4, 2012

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  Accountability, High-Stakes Testing

  It will take 80 more years for No Child Left Behind to close the achievement gap. Sean Reardon, Stanford University Professor of Education, comment (October 4, 2012 INVALSI Accountability Conference in Rome, Italy) based on his latest research on achievement gaps in the United States. 

• NEPC: Turnarounds “More Likely to Cause Upheaval Than to Help”

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  October 1, 2012

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  Accountability, High-Stakes Testing, School Turnaround

  I am very fortunate to be at a AERA Division L meeting with many esteemed education policy faculty, including Tina Trujillo, professor at UC-Berkeley. At dinner yesterday, she gave me the heads-up on a new policy and legislative brief that she authored for NEPC examining school turnaround. The brief is entitled Democratic School Turnarounds: Pursuing Equity…

• Decade of Education Outcome Data: Texas vs. California vs. New York vs. Nation

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  September 27, 2012

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  Accountability, African Americans, Announcements, High-Stakes Testing, Higher Education Access, Latina/os

  Today we are pleased to release the report Is Texas leading its peers and the nation?: A Decadal Analysis of Educational Data. The Institute for Urban Policy Research and Analysis at the University of Texas at Austin commissioned a policy this report in the spring of 2012 to examine education data for the state of Texas,…

  

• “Illusion of Inclusion,” Article about Race and Standards in Harvard Educational Review

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  September 20, 2012

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  Accountability, African Americans, High-Stakes Testing, Latina/os, Standards

   In this article, Julian Vasquez Heilig, Keffrelyn Brown, and Anthony Brown offer findings from a close textual analysis of how the Texas social studies standards address race, racism, and communities of color. Using the lens of Critical Race Theory, the authors uncover the sometimes subtle ways that the standards can appear to adequately address race while…