Education vs Competition - Greg Abbott's Townhall 254

This topic contains 4 replies, has 3 voices, and was last updated by Julie Zuber 11 years, 5 months ago.

Julie Jumes, 11 years ago

Competition does serve the purpose of test makers and preppers. I believe standardized testing isn’t helping our kids, especially the young…. http://youtu.be/zDZFcDGpL4U

Donna Campbell, 11 years ago

Thanks for allowing us to clarify, Julie! The state’s priority is educating our children – and rankings simply serve to assess performance in meeting this goal. These two concepts are not mutually exclusive – in fact, one begets the other.

Julie Jumes, 11 years ago

Who defines the rankings? Texas ranks 2nd only to FL in the amount of money offered to our Seniors for athletic scholarships every year. We rank at the bottom, along with FL, in SAT/ACT scores. These two ranking stats tend to be inversely proportional. I don’t see standardized testing of children younger than high school age changing either of those stats.

Julie Zuber, 11 years ago

Thank you for considering my post, Donna Campbell, and with all due respect, it was really my concern for meeting the needs of the children in regard to their developmental milestones that I want an answer to. ??? Where is that in this new proposal? Where does a rigorous pre-k reading curriculum fit in with a toddlers age appropriate developmental milestones? We SHOULD have high expectations of our children, but they should also be appropriate expectations. I have high expectations of TEA and TSBOE, but feel that their (collective) need to “improve” our education system has instead brought about chaos and a lack of much needed progress.

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