[Rhodes22-list] Texas Public Schools

[Herb Parsons]

Ross Perot chaired a 1984 special commission in Texas. That was where
TAAS was "born".

Herb Parsons

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>>> salm at mn.rr.com 10/6/2004 12:05:01 AM >>>
Jim,

I can't stop wondering about Ross Perot.  How did he impose the TAAS
test?
What position did he hold that allowed him to do that?

Slim

On 10/5/04 4:14 PM, "Jim White" <jdwhite at utpa.edu> wrote:

> 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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