Exploring Texas' High-stakes Testing System: A focus on STAAR

Please click the link above or the image below for information on the upcoming, Texas Center for Education Policy and Center for Mexican American Studies Policy Brown Bag on the State of Texas Assessment of Academic Readiness.

There will be two showings, both on Thursday, March 8, 2012:
12:00 to 1:30PM and
5:00 to 6:30PM

Both events will be held on the UT Campus in the Cissy Parker McDaniel Conference Room (2nd floor of the George I. Sanchez Bldg.).
The event is free and open to the public.
Parking is available at the Brazos Garage.

TCEP Policy Brown Bag: Exit Strategies: How Low Performing High Schools Respond to High School Exit Examination Requirements

The Texas Center for Education Policy is happy to invite you to a TCEP Brown Bag featuring Dr. Jennifer Jellison Holme titled:

“Exit Strategies: How Low Performing High Schools Respond to High School
Exit Examination Requirements

Where: Cissy Parker McDaniel Dean's Conference Room, Sanchez Building
Date: November 2, 2011
Time: 12-1:30PM

Dr. Holme’s research focuses on the politics and implementation of educational policy, with a particular focus on the relationship between school reform, equity, and diversity in schools. Dr. Holme is particularly interested in understanding how structures of opportunity within metropolitan areas relate to schooling conditions and outcomes for students, and how educational policies interact with those opportunity structures. Her current work focuses on school desegregation, high stakes testing, and school choice policy.

For those unfamiliar with the College of Education who are coming from off campus, see the following link for a map that identifies both parking (BRG) and the Sanchez Building (SZB):

http://www.utexas.edu/maps/main/buildings/szb.html