TAKS
Why numbers alone don’t tell the story
If TAKS scores go up unexpectedly, you can be flagged for cheating when all you really did was, well, what you were supposed to do: MySA.com: KENS 5: Education: For example, Northside’s Pease Middle School was flagged for gains in eighth-grade math. But districts don’t know which individual student scores stood out. “If they gave [...]
So who’s accountable?
Dallas Morning News | News for Dallas, Texas | Texas/Southwest: In other words, a student who moved to Dallas in June and attended a local school the entire school year would still not be counted in that school’s scores the following spring. Does this mean that the students who move away from Dallas will be [...]