Category: Standards

• Standards, kissing, and the voice of a teacher

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  December 24, 2012

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  Standards

  It has been quiet here on Cloaking Inequity because we just buttoned up finals and grades at UT-Austin. So let’s get back to it and chat a little bit about standards. Since their roll-out across the nation in the 1990s, standards have continued front and center due to their linkage with high-stakes testing and accountability. I…

• Pop the Popcorn: The Revisionaries

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  October 14, 2012

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  Standards

  Considering my prior discussion about the Texas State Board of Education and TEKS standards revision process in “Texas: Butt of many jokes” and “Illusion of Inclusion”. Looking forward to seeing the The Revisionaries when it comes back to Austin in a few weeks. Note: Also see the NAACP’s request for a compliance review of Texas standards and educational…

• 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…

  

• “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…