IDRA Newsletter: Up Or Down: The Dropout Dilemma In Texas at 20 State agencies and One Educational Institution, states that were incorrect and that the agency does not Road, Suite 350, San Antonio, texas 782281190 http://www.idra.org/Newslttr/1996/Oct/Roy.htm
News And Announcements. TASB On Line recognition Anderson Elementary is the first campus in the history of Lufkin ISD to be named a Distinguished Performance School by the texas education Agency http://www.tasb.org/news/
Extractions: Tomorrow evening, Crockett Elementary School gifted and talented facilitator Judy Brown will be among 45 statewide finalists in the 2004 H-E-B Excellence in Education Awards Offered as a school solution "We have to come up with a permanent revenue source for education, not a Band-Aid," Eltife said. A school finance plan kicked around in the Senate that Eltife said he liked was a business tax
IP202 It is intended to be comprehensive and to measure higherorder thinking skills and problem-solving ability (texas education Agency, 1999). http://www.rand.org/publications/IP/IP202/
Extractions: Link to the press release on this issue paper. Link to a Statement of RAND President and CEO, James A. Thomson Stephen P. Klein, Laura S. Hamilton, Daniel F. McCaffrey, Brian M. Stecher The high-stakes testing program in Texas has received much of this attention in part because of the extraordinarily large gains the students in this state have made on its statewide achievement tests, the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS). In fact, the gains in TAAS reading and math scores for both majority and minority students have been so dramatic that they have been dubbed the "Texas miracle." However, there are concerns that these gains were inflated or biased as an indirect consequence of the rewards and sanctions that are attached to the results. Thus, although there is general agreement that the gains on the TAAS are attributable to Texas' high-stakes accountability system, there is some question about what these gains mean. Specifically, do they reflect a real improvement in student achievement or something else? We conducted several analyses to examine the issue of whether TAAS scores can be trusted to provide an accurate index of student skills and abilities. First, we used scores on the reading and math tests that are administered as part of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) to investigate how much students in Texas have improved and whether this improvement is consistent with what has occurred nationwide. NAEP scores are a good benchmark for this purpose because they reflect national content standards and they are not subject to the same external pressures to boost scores as there are on the TAAS.
Links To Related Sites texas Center for Reading Language Arts http//www.texasreading.org/tcrla/index.htm. texas education Agency http//www.tea.state.tx.us/. The texas education http://www.uth.tmc.edu/uth_orgs/cars/development/tpri/links.htm
Extractions: These links are NOT to material on your CD. Clicking on these links will pull up Internet World Wide Web pages if you are connected to the Internet. If these links do not come up, your computer may not presently be connected to the Internet. The sites listed are not endorsed by the Center of Academic and Reading Skills. They present other related information on reading for educators and parents.
Extractions: [ Members Only ] The Texas Education Agency (TEA) oversees pre-kindergarten through high school education in the state. The agency administers and monitors compliance of all Texas education programs that are required by federal and state law. TEA is headed by the Texas Commissioner of Education. TEA's Commissioner of Education serves as executive secretary to the State Board of Education (SBOE), a 15-member elected body that works with the commissioner to oversee the public education system of Texas in accordance with the Texas Education Code. The Texas Commissioner of Education is appointed by the governor. The commissioner's duties involve establishing educational and agency policies and rules; recommending changes in state education legislation to the governor and Texas Legislature; implementing changes in education law; adopting various plans and budgets; appointing advisory committees; and general educational leadership and direction. The rules adopted by the SBOE and the commissioner are part of a larger body of state agency rules that are collected and published by the Office of the Secretary of State as the Texas Administrative Code (TAC). The TAC is divided by subject into numbered titles, each of which may be further divided into numbered parts. SBOE and commissioner's rules are codified under Title 19, Part II, of the TAC. Title 19 is Education, and Part II is the Texas Education Agency.
ISTE Board Of Directors Anita Givens Senior Director for educational Technology texas education Agency texas. ISTE Membership Services iste@iste.org 1.800.336.5191 1.541 http://www.iste.org/membership/board/2003/index.cfm
Extractions: Search Rethinking Schools Help Home Archives Volume 16 No. 1 Bamboozled by the Texas Miracle Texas is the model for President Bush's education agenda. As this Texas teacher warns, Watch out! Your classroom may never be the same. By Teddi Beam-Conroy I had taught in elementary schools in Milwaukee, Phoenix, and Minneapolis before moving to Texas in 1993, so annual testing was nothing new. Each of those districts gave the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills (ITBS); two also gave locally-mandated standardized tests. I was hired to teach fifth grade at a large, semi-urban elementary school and placed on a team with five other experienced teachers. At the beginning of the school year, my colleagues spoke often of TAAS (the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills). I responded as I had in previous years. I ignored it. Springtime was test time. It was only August and I had kids to teach. And then there was the TAAS. Kids failed. Lots of them. Both in reading and math. How had these children, the same children who had done so well on the ITBS, done so miserably on TAAS?
A Directory For Asperger Syndrome: Texas Education Agency Detailed Link View for texas education Agency. Go Back. texas education Agency. texas Administrative Code, Title 19, Part II Chapter 89. http://www.kandi.org/aspergers/Detailed/95.html
Bibliography Retrieved October 12, 2000 from the World Wide Web http//www.tppf.org/current.htm; Robinson, C. (2000). texas education Agency. (2000). http://www.start-at-zero.com/papers/teks-taas/biblio.html
Extractions: References Belt, D. (2000). State Assessments Come Under File . Austin, TX: Publishers Resource Group, Inc. Retrieved from the World Wide Web October 25, 2000: http://www.prgaustin.com/fyi/v12i2_nat3.html Statewide Mathematics Assessment in Texas . San Diego, CA: Mathematically Correct. Retrieved November 1, 2000 from the World Wide Web: http://www.mathematicallycorrect.com/lonestar.htm Authentic Assessment in Action . New York: Teachers College Press. Eisner, E. (1999). Performance assessment and competition. The Education Digest, Vol 65. Granat, D. (1990). Measuring IQ: a national obsession. The Houston Post . Houston, TX: The Houston Post Publishing Company. Haney, W. (2000) The Myth of the Texas Miracle in Education , Educational Policy Analysis Archives. Tempe, AZ: Arizona State University. Retrieved November 25, 2000, from the World Wide Web: http://olam.ed.asu.edu/epaa/v8n41
Texas Department Of Health The mission of the Bureau of Food and Drug Safety is to promote public health and safety through an efficient and effective program of education and enforcement to prevent the sale of contaminated http://www.tdh.state.tx.us/bfds
Extractions: Bureau of Food and Drug Safety Enforcement Actions Help Select Item Below Division Websites Manufactured Foods Meat Safety Assurance Retail Foods Seafood Safety BFDS Information Mission Statement Central Location Organizational Chart Frequently Asked Questions Regions Contact BFDS Items of Interest Food Safety TDH Hot Topic TDH News Release Employment State of Texas Website T.R.A.I.L. Texas Department of Health Contact Site Map
Texas State Approving Agency For Veterans Education Skip Navigation, home site index about us contact information. Search, texas State Approving Agency for Veterans education. Rules http://www.twc.state.tx.us/svcs/vetsvcs/tsaa/valist.html
Education Resource Organizations Directory (EROD) State Higher education Agency. 7413605 Fax (615) 741-6230 Website http//www.state.tn.us/thec/ texas Top texas Higher education Coordinating Board PO http://bcol02.ed.gov/Programs/EROD/org_list.cfm?category_ID=SHE
Athletics Athletic Director rcopeland@jacksonvilleisd.org. May 10 May 14. Requirements for Participation. Fightin Indian athletics is second to none in all of texas. http://www.jack.sprnet.org/athletics.htm
Extractions: Pictures Fightin Indian athletics is second to none in all of Texas. The Fightin Indians boast of championship teams in Football, Basketball, Baseball, Track/Field, Golf, and Soccer. The Fightin Maidens offer championship competition in Volleyball, Basketball, Golf, Soccer, and Track/Field. The Indians are in Class 4A and are the ultimate total sports model for athletic programs. The Indians play football and soccer in the historic Tomato Bowl, listed in the San Antonio Express as one of the top ten stadiums for High School Football in all of Texas. Pictures:
Section 504 And IDEA Resources CESD presenters put together a lot of 504 and IDEA (special education) materials during the course of the year as they present on a variety of disability law http://www.504idea.org/resources.html
Extractions: A selection of Section 504 and IDEA resources to download for your files.* CESD presenters put together a lot of and IDEA (special education) materials during the course of the year as they present on a variety of disability law topics. The resource section includes a sampling of those written materials, plus some other things you might find useful, including links to other sites. In addition to these resources, you might also spend some time browsing through the Question and Answer section of the site, where a variety of popular 504 questions are addressed. *You will need a copy of the Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your computer to read the resources posted here, or to print them after downloading. The following sites contain information relating to disabled students that may be of benefit to educators and others. The inclusion of these sites does not necessarily represent an endorsement by CESD of the sites sponsor or indicate that all information available at the site is correct. Federal Government Sites U.S.. Department of Education
TSPR And E-Texas - Helping Schools Make Technology Work The cornerstone of texas State Comptroller Carole Keeton Strayhorn's administration is etexas, a citizen commission charged with developing recommendations to help texas state government meet the http://www.window.state.tx.us/tpr/tspr/tech10.html
Extractions: The Issues and Challenges Facing Most Public School Districts The cornerstone of Texas State Comptroller Carole Keeton Strayhorn's administration is e-Texas, a citizen commission charged with developing recommendations to help Texas state government meet the challenges of the Internet Age. As a former school teacher and a former school board president, but most importantly as a mother and grandmother, Comptroller Strayhorn has made education her priority. Understandably, Comptroller Strayhorn charged her nationally recognized Texas School Performance Review (TSPR) and e-Texas to create a guide for making technology work in public schools. Businesses use advances in telecommunications and information technology to produce better products at a lower cost with improved customer service. These advances need to be incorporated into every school district and campus to reduce costs and improve service delivery. In reviews of the best technology-related management practices found in Texas public schools, 10 key themes emerge. Top 10 Ways To Improve Public Schools Develop long and short-range plans and budgets: don't fly blind Create policies, procedures and standards: the bedrock of effective technological change
