Texas to Phase In New Performance Standards
Texas is raising the stakes, and the expectations, with its new testing program—though students will be given two years before they are held to the ultimate achievement goals.
The state board of education voted 12-3 Nov. 15 to set a passing score on its new Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills for the current school year that will be lower than the one students will be required to meet two years from now.
The passing scores are slated to rise for 2003-04 and then again the next year. By then, they will reach the point recommended by a panel of experts that reviewed the scores on a recent field test of the new test...
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