‘Who allowed these big boys to go and play in education? Now the moms have to clean it up’
What started with eight women from Austin and suburban Houston is now a movement that spread across Texas and is challenging the standardized testing regime in the Lone Star State.The group started by these moms, Texas Advocating for Meaningful Student Assessments, is leading the charge in support of a bill in the Texas Legislature that would reduce the number of state-required standardized tests required for high school students to graduate from 15 to five, according to this story in theAmerican-Statesman.
There is some irony in the fact that such grassroots anti-testing fervor is happening in Texas, as this is the place where the high-stakes standardized testing movement began under then governor George W. Bush.
House Bill 5 has already passed the Texas House and is expected to get through the Senate, though Gov. Rick Perry could veto it. The group started by the Texas mothers has got parents across Texas calling and writing their legislators and showing up at hearings in support of the bill.
Theresa Treviño, a child psychiatrist and Austin mother who helped launch the parent
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An award-winning principal looks at the growing resistance to standardized testing in NEw York and beyond. This was written by Carol Burris, principal of South Side High School in New York. She was named 2013 High School Principal of the … Continue reading →