Welcome to City-Data.com Forum!
U.S. CitiesCity-Data Forum Index
Go Back   City-Data Forum > U.S. Forums > Texas > Houston
 [Register]
Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
View detailed profile (Advanced) or search
site with Google Custom Search

Search Forums  (Advanced)
Reply Start New Thread
 
Old 03-30-2008, 10:40 PM
 
Location: ✶✶✶✶
15,216 posts, read 30,566,366 times
Reputation: 10851

Advertisements

Um, and that's not even right. The guy whose assassination started WWI was Archduke Ferdinand, not a president....

They should probably stick to letting history teachers teach history.
Reply With Quote Quick reply to this message

 
Old 03-31-2008, 03:40 PM
 
1,290 posts, read 5,438,742 times
Reputation: 724
I'm thinking anything Tier 2 and up would just about be the same.
Reply With Quote Quick reply to this message
 
Old 04-01-2008, 12:02 PM
 
Location: Southeast Texas
564 posts, read 2,046,031 times
Reputation: 199
Quote:
Originally Posted by jfre81 View Post
Um, and that's not even right. The guy whose assassination started WWI was Archduke Ferdinand, not a president....

They should probably stick to letting history teachers teach history.
LOL! I was about to say the same thing.
Reply With Quote Quick reply to this message
 
Old 04-01-2008, 01:34 PM
 
4,875 posts, read 10,075,384 times
Reputation: 1993
Quote:
Originally Posted by jfre81 View Post
As in, what, judging which bubble to fill in on the standardized tests? That's all public school is anymore. Everything revolves around the test. I guess it's easier to do that than actually teach kids.
That *wasn't* the case in the public schools I went to. For AP course classes we had to write essays and study from books and works of literature. Sometimes were even had spirited debates in the history classes!

So, it depends on what public school you go to. Some focus too much on tests and some do not.
Reply With Quote Quick reply to this message
 
Old 04-01-2008, 01:38 PM
 
Location: Hougary, Texberta
9,019 posts, read 14,295,494 times
Reputation: 11032
Quote:
Originally Posted by Bike4Life View Post
Yes, a teacher friend explained some of the test questions and they are terrible. WWI story - how did it get started? He explained that it was NATO alliance that promised to protect our friends and if war started, we will help our neighbors which will lead US involvement in Europe. The correct TASK test answer is just because, "the president got shot". True but that's like reading one bar line in the bar code.
And there was no such thing as NATO.
Reply With Quote Quick reply to this message
 
Old 04-01-2008, 11:02 PM
 
179 posts, read 858,512 times
Reputation: 59
some of those rankings use 9-12 campuses. TWHS is a 10-12 campus.
Reply With Quote Quick reply to this message
 
Old 04-03-2008, 06:07 PM
 
Location: Charleston Sc and Western NC
9,273 posts, read 26,501,448 times
Reputation: 4741
But considering many on the list have 10-12, I don't think that's the problem.

PS- 9th grade campus up there is taken into account when ranking/rating the High School everywhere else.
Reply With Quote Quick reply to this message
 
Old 04-03-2008, 06:57 PM
 
Location: ✶✶✶✶
15,216 posts, read 30,566,366 times
Reputation: 10851
Quote:
Originally Posted by Vicman View Post
That *wasn't* the case in the public schools I went to. For AP course classes we had to write essays and study from books and works of literature. Sometimes were even had spirited debates in the history classes!

So, it depends on what public school you go to. Some focus too much on tests and some do not.
Well, here's a little slice of high school life for me in Texas City, circa the Y2K Scare era...there was no TAKS yet; we had TAAS which covered English/writing, math and reading. It was taken in the 10th grade, so people had three years basically to take it and graduate (it was mandatory for graduation as TAKS is now). Freshman year had a healthy dose of remedial TAAS-related work that bored everyone stupid before they go right to critically analyzing Shakespeare and bisecting polynomials (none of which TAAS touched). Quite a 180-degree turn. Well, I took the thing in the 10th grade, where they gave all day to do one section of the three-part test. I was done sometime between 11 and noon, and this was after actually being handed the thing at maybe 9. Then come my junior year it was decided that people weren't getting enough TAAS "review" work so every Tuesday leading up to the test for 10th graders they were shortening every period by five minutes (including AP calculus and trig and all that good stuff for college-bound seniors) so we could have a 35-minute TAAS study hall.

This kind of thing is what you get when you link state funding to standardized test scores.
Reply With Quote Quick reply to this message
 
Old 04-03-2008, 07:29 PM
 
Location: Houston
407 posts, read 1,736,621 times
Reputation: 294
Well then you will be happy to know that the TAKS in High school is going away. It will be replaced by "end of course tests".

Legislature votes to end TAKS in high school (http://www.statesman.com/news/content/region/legislature/stories/05/27/27testing.html - broken link)
Reply With Quote Quick reply to this message
 
Old 04-10-2008, 05:32 PM
 
9 posts, read 77,929 times
Reputation: 20
No matter what part of the country you live in the only way there seems to be to rank or grade schools is the standardized test. I can tell you as a teacher some teachers cheat! They don't want it to look like they are not teaching. It's more important that the school is in the area of town you like. Then check out the schools. A school is only as good as it's teachers. Also remember the higher the real estate the better the schools are preceived to be.
Reply With Quote Quick reply to this message
Please register to post and access all features of our very popular forum. It is free and quick. Over $68,000 in prizes has already been given out to active posters on our forum. Additional giveaways are planned.

Detailed information about all U.S. cities, counties, and zip codes on our site: City-data.com.


Reply
Please update this thread with any new information or opinions. This open thread is still read by thousands of people, so we encourage all additional points of view.

Quick Reply
Message:


Settings
X
Data:
Loading data...
Based on 2000-2020 data
Loading data...

123
Hide US histogram


Over $104,000 in prizes was already given out to active posters on our forum and additional giveaways are planned!

Go Back   City-Data Forum > U.S. Forums > Texas > Houston
Similar Threads

All times are GMT -6.

© 2005-2024, Advameg, Inc. · Please obey Forum Rules · Terms of Use and Privacy Policy · Bug Bounty

City-Data.com - Contact Us - Archive 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37 - Top