[Rhodes22-list] Slim's issues

[Jim White]

At 03:52 PM 10/05/2004 -0500, you wrote:

Slim wrote:
>It's pretty hard to comment on the schools in SC, IL or Texas when all my
>experience has been in MN, but I'll take a crack at it.  First, Texas.  All
>I know about Texas schools is what I read from Texan, Molly Ivins who blames
>Gov. GWB for all that mediocrity that Jim refers to.  He dumbed down the
>tests in order to raise the percentage of passing scores, making Texas look
>better against other states.  He has the same idiotic plan for the rest of
>the country.

Actually, and strictly historically speaking, the tests in Texas (and 
teacher competency assessment as well) were first initiated by Ross Perot 
as the TAAS test (Texas Assessment of Academic Skills) back in the 1990's, 
it was a pretty watered down test, and many teachers were up in arms about 
having to prove their own competency. Under GWB that test evolved into the 
TAKS (Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills) test, a much more difficult 
test. This test was conceived under Bushs' governorship, but implemented 
under our current (and much less effective) governor: Rick Perry.

Just for the record.
jw


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