Business Leaders Favor Tweaks to Student Testing System
Texas business leaders said Wednesday that they would now support modifications they had previously opposed to graduation and testing requirements in the accountability system implemented this spring. They also put forth a plan that provides multiple pathways to graduation, including one that focuses on business and industry.
Calling their plans a constructive response to widespread criticism of the state's new student assessments, leaders from the Texas Association of Business, the Texas Institute for Education Reform and the Texas Business Leadership Council recommended letting local school districts determine how end-of-course exams factored into students' final grades, reducing the number of ...
Comments (5)
Thomas Ratliff
This is a wonderful development and an encouraging sign for the upcoming session. I appreciate the TAB listening to parents, businesses and chambers of commerce across the state and turning this corner. We aren't there yet, but we're making progress. It's unfortunate that the Austin Chamber can't be part of the solution instead of being a speed bump. Maybe Austin businesses need to get more directly involved rather than let Mr. Scheberle speak for them.
Texas Parents Union via Texas Tribune on Facebook
We're glad to see that Bill Hammond and the Texas Association of Business are finally listening to parents and educators!
LLC LLC1923
Taxpayers need full disclosure related to standardized testing, corporate interests, lobbyists and business associations. How much money does each student generate for Pearson Inc. and the subcontractors from third grade to graduation?
Dave S
Poorly done article. Where are the details on what the business group is proposing? In the entire article you literally have one sentence saying what they are proposing.
Michael Hull
This article highlights one of the major problems with so -called education reform--it appears people whose function is to promote business and make money have become the de facto experts on education in Texas.
Why give creedance to any of these groups or their members? What do they know about educating people? Who cares what Bill Hammond has to say...ever...and particularly as it relates to education?
I propose that the Texas Tribune quit bolstering the opinions of these people. Their opinions often result in someone making money that could be going toward extra teachers, or books, or the like. These groups are comprised of lobbyists--really nothing more. I just don't see why anyone would care what these people have to say about our system of education, a system one the decline in significant part due to their ideas of reform or accountability. I don't get it....