Texas House Bill 3979 steps backward from racial progress, ignoring the US’s current racial climate and politicizing education. On October 14, in a training session to the Caroll independent school district, Gina Peddy, the district’s executive director of curriculum and instruction, suggested that if teachers kept a book about the Holocaust in their classroom, they […]
Education
More Words, Less Change: Breaking Down the President’s “Testing Action Plan”
The recent standardized testing guidelines issued by the Department of Education represent a substantial shift in the Obama administration’s rhetoric but avoid actual policy changes.
Socioeconomic Inequity and the SAT: A Brief History
The changes to the test coming in March 2016 are positive steps, but won’t eliminate the racial and socioeconomic biases that have plagued the SAT throughout its history.