STATE PANEL SUGGESTS CHANGES TO STAAR TEST
A state panel is making recommendations to change the controversial STAAR tests for public schools.
The Texas Commission on Next Generation Assessments and Accountability backtracked on plans Wednesday to recommend Texas replacing the controversial STAAR Test.
Recommendations from the panel include shorter less intense tests rather than just one and putting paper exams on computers.
The panel will make recommendations for the Legislature before it meets next year.
The STAAR test has come under fire from students, teachers and parents.
In April more than 14,000 STAAR tests were impacted by a computer glitch, prompting state educators to waive promotion requirements for the year.
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I believe we need to be teaching our kids things like investing your money, even keeping up with a checkbook, how to do car maintenance; oil changes, tire change etc. I may be old school but what kids need to know now in grades is way earlier than I think. High school electives and college were for the more advanced needs of a degree.
All the schools do is teach to test. The kids are getting frustrated and so are the teachers. We are sending these kids to school to learn how to take a test rather than to teach them what they need for success. Help the teachers do what they are trained to do and get rid of the STAAR test and go back to teaching the subjects that all tax payers pay for. You can ask any student at the high school level what they have learned and the answer I get is how to take a STAAR test. That is sad TEXAS. Go back to the basics and lets make these kids smarter, happier and less stressed out.
So computer glitches were a major problem this year and the state’s solution is to do more computer testing? What am I missing here?