Year in Review: Education
Public school accountability, standardized tests, $10,000 degrees and the changing faces of state education leadership made headlines in 2012 in the Tribune. Here's a look back at the year's biggest stories on public and higher education.
Public education
For public education in Texas, 2012 was the year of accountability. Questions over how best to evaluate the performance of public schools, whether they receive enough funding to adequately educate students, and how much to use student assessments in measuring effectiveness dominated discussion.
A growing backlash against state standardized tests and their role in the Texas accountability system first ...
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Jalapeño Schwartz via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I never look back
A'Ja Lyve via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Rick Perry and his disgusting attacks on reproductive rights. He makes me ashamed to be a Texan.
valerie Chernek
Texas and our nation has made some progress in special education in regard to equal access to learning materials. Thousands of children and adolescents with print disabilities (blind, low vision, a physical disability or severe reading disability) now have opportunities to read and learn using digital accessible books. There is a federally funded, online library (Bookshare) that provides free memberships for schools and families-- including reading technologies and professional development for teachers. Information for the Accessible Books for Texas program is located at this link: http://www.accessiblebooks4tx.org/