Attention, Dallas ISD parents -- students too. You're not the only ones who hate standardized testing. Matter of fact, the loudest critic is none other than Texas Education Agency Commissioner Robert Scott, who, as you may recall, referred to teaching to the test as nothing less than a
"a perversion of its original intent." The reason: Students spent most of their days these days either studying for or taking standardized tests.
The district's even offering prep sessions for the STAAR test. And while
some in the state Lege refuse to budge (hello, Florence Shapiro), districts statewide are beginning to speak up for themselves. As
Valerie Strauss noted on her Washington Post ed blog recently, more than 100 districts across the state have passed a resolution condemning the state's "over-reliance on standardized, high stakes testing." On Thursday, the DISD board will consider whether or not to add its name to that
