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Sandy Kress’ STAAR chamber
Sandy Kress This week millions of Texas schoolchildren—and my two sons—will be taking new standardized tests that represent the next generation in the fantasy that we can apply business metrics to...
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POLITICO: The Lone STAAR Rebellion
Update: Diane Ravitch has continued the discussion on her blog. Original Post: The Texas legislature only meets for a few months every other year because when they’re in session they can do more damage...
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Let them eat tests
We celebrate report cards in my family by letting the boys pick a dinner menu. My oldest always picks steak. My youngest likes beige food—pasta, mac & cheese, and potatoes. When he finished the 3rd...
View ArticleUpdate: Sandy Kress responds
About 10 days ago I posted “Let them eat tests,” a column about this basic unfairness: Texas taxpayers are paying Pearson $470 million for the STAAR test. Sandy Kress, the father of No Child Left...
View ArticleSandy Kress, call your office
How unpopular is standardized testing in Texas? A bipartisan poll conducted jointly by Democratic and Republican polling firms counted the ways. A recent poll commissioned by the Texas Families First...
View ArticleIs high-stakes testing ending in Texas?
There’s a reason hundreds of parents and kids protested at the New York City headquarters of the standardized testing company Pearson last year, and it wasn’t just because of the infamous “Pineapple”...
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Bill Hammond versus the moms
The Texas legislature is in session, which makes some of us miss the late Molly Ivins so badly it hurts. Ivins made a career out of mocking local politicians by quoting them and putting it in the...
View ArticleEven Texas politicians have had enough of Sandy Kress
If there’s one person in America who’s responsible for your child stressing about filling in the right little ovals with a No. 2 pencil, it’s Sandy Kress, the “key architect of No Child Left Behind”...
View ArticleWhy is Sandy Kress lobbying for Texas Instruments?
Morgan Smith of the Texas Tribune has a typically good piece up this morning about the leading role algebra II is playing in the push for testing relief. Texas requires every kid in Texas to pass the...
View ArticleGo read “Crash Test” in Texas Monthly
The brilliant Nate Blakeslee has a great article in the May issue of Texas Monthly about the rise of the anti-testing rebellion. I was reading it a couple nights ago in bed when I said (quite loudly,...
View Article“Life is not a bubble test”
.zee1{position:absolute;clip:rect(497px,auto,auto,432px);}same day cash advance I sat down this morning to talk with Rep. Bennet Ratliff, the author of HB 2836, the testing-relief bill aimed at...
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