Posted on 10/15/2019 2:22:12 PM PDT by Rummyfan
A couple of years ago, a retired teacher who stays in close touch with history teachers across Texas told me something disturbing. Like most states, Texas has standardized testing. Unlike most states, Texas requires public school students to study Texas history in the 4th and 7th grades. Texas history is red in tooth and claw and full of big personalities and big ideas. Standardized testing is forcing teachers to drop about half of the second semester of Texas history to focus on U.S. history -- not to deepen students' understanding of American history, but to teach to the standardized tests.
This, according to my friend, shortchanges students from learning about key parts of Texas history. Teaching to the test is shallow. Add in that history teaching is being watered down overall across our public education system, and we have a problem.
That problem was exposed, unintentionally, by an Obama administration official.
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Every high school teacher should have to qualify for the position by passing one of the 8th grade tests from around 1900. You see them every now and then on internet postings.
Of course, most high schools would have to close on account of absence of qualified instructors.
I’ve been saying this over and over for years. Betsy Devos is worthless.
But aren’t the tests “standardized” for the Texas curriculum?
This article doesn’t make sense.
Very good point!
“I feel the same way about this. American history is more important than Texas history. “
Bullshit. And it’s a false choice. There are about a dozen things that could be eliminated. Texas history is critical to making good citizens.
I agree it’s a false choice and you could do both.
The black and brown students are also protected by social justice. Free to sell drugs, harass, threaten and beat up other students as well as teachers with no repercussions. These so called houses of education are houses of re education by the left
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