Tag: STAAR

• Blackademics: Julian Vasquez Heilig @ KLRU PBS Feb 13, 2013

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  January 28, 2013

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  Accountability, African Americans, High-Stakes Testing

  Join KLRU for the live taping of Blackademics: Education, Performance and Youth Empowerment Date: Wednesday February 13, 2013 Time: 7 pm (doors open at 6:30 pm) Location: KLRU Studio 6A (map) RSVP: Event is free, but RSVP is required. RSVP now Join us for a live recording of nationally and internationally renowned black studies scholars as…

  

• The High-Stakes Testing Playbook: False Bill of Goods?

  5–8 minutes

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  January 25, 2013

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  African Americans, High-Stakes Testing, Latina/os

  In the summer of 2012, a Houston Chronicle editorial argued that the state was faced with “widespread panic” at the low levels of students passing the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR), TEA and Pearson’s new testing regime. Don’t panic the scores will go up— and they will do so over the next…