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Charlz Guybon posted:Won't killing affirmative action see the percentage of Asian-American students at elite universities rise a lot though? hatty posted:They’re gonna do an affirmative action but for white men
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Apr 18, 2023 14:13
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Oh yeah, Asian Americans are one of the biggest blocs against affirmative action, they loving hate it. Generally, of course. My opinion is that none of the marginal strategies to achieve racial parity in higher education have really worked besides a couple of percentage points, the only way to actually achieve racial parity is enforced quotas, which are a policy that is not tolerable to probably 80%+ of the populace, and this is another We're Just Gonna Have to Wait for the Racists to Die  We know why minority participation in higher education is lower, they tend to have lower incomes, worse public education, and fewer parental resources/time to devote to helping kids in school. Not fixable at the output point. zoux fucked around with this message at 14:31 on Apr 18, 2023 |
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Apr 18, 2023 14:24
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Didn't they just remove student consequences from the staar?
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Apr 18, 2023 14:33
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They removed the requirement to pass to advance a grade, but they're still high stakes and they absolutely affect districts and campuses so teachers are just as frantic about it.
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Apr 18, 2023 14:35
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I remember TAKS being pretty easy is STAAR that much harder?
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Apr 18, 2023 14:43
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hatty posted:I remember TAKS being pretty easy is STAAR that much harder? No. Similar pass rates for both.
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Apr 18, 2023 14:45
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zoux posted:They removed the requirement to pass to advance a grade, but they're still high stakes and they absolutely affect districts and campuses so teachers are just as frantic about it. Yes, as I said 'for the students'
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Apr 18, 2023 14:47
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https://twitter.com/katieasharrock/status/1648341120395407364 Jesus Christ, again?
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Apr 18, 2023 16:09
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/katieasharrock/status/1648341120395407364 Looks like the pause only lasted about an hour, but that's still extremely bad press. https://twitter.com/SouthwestAir/status/1648349441693298688?s=20
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Apr 18, 2023 18:10
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hatty posted:I remember TAKS being pretty easy is STAAR that much harder? They rewrote the tests dramatically this year and expect the results to be catastrophic.
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Apr 18, 2023 19:23
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Watermelon Daiquiri posted:Didn't they just remove student consequences from the staar? This is the case in most states. You wind up with a lot of lawsuits and news profiles of students who got all their grades and did everything they were supposed to but got denied a diploma if you attach student consequences.
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Apr 18, 2023 19:39
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DuckHuntDog posted:They rewrote the tests dramatically this year and expect the results to be catastrophic. Is this the first round of tests that are going to be wholly post-COVID? Did they even do them last year?
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Apr 18, 2023 19:40
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zoux posted:Is this the first round of tests that are going to be wholly post-COVID? Did they even do them last year? Yes, they had the tests last year. My kids' school district came out "A" rated on the scale that was used last year. This year TEA upped the requirements for an "A" rating to the point where my kids' school district would be "C" rated if they achieve the same results as last year. There may be some grace built in to it, but as of the last school board meeting, they had not received much in the way of concrete guidance from TEA.
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Apr 18, 2023 20:15
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Ratmtattat posted:they had not received much in the way of concrete guidance from TEA. Lol, I can't believe it
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Apr 18, 2023 20:21
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Ratmtattat posted:Yes, they had the tests last year. My kids' school district came out "A" rated on the scale that was used last year. This year TEA upped the requirements for an "A" rating to the point where my kids' school district would be "C" rated if they achieve the same results as last year. There may be some grace built in to it, but as of the last school board meeting, they had not received much in the way of concrete guidance from TEA. That is also not including changes to the tests, including the format of questions, rigor of questions, etc. They also announced they aren’t releasing test results until the fall. Fully expecting the school I am working at to go from a B to an F. What a coincidence that there is zero push for any accountability on private schools even if we started giving them tax money. zoux posted:Is this the first round of tests that are going to be wholly post-COVID? Did they even do them last year? They did not give them in 2020 and excused them, but basically have given them since then. It also lined up with them switching vendors, but this year is also a new testing platform online so they are rewriting them as well. DuckHuntDog fucked around with this message at 22:34 on Apr 18, 2023 |
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Apr 18, 2023 22:27
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Ratmtattat posted:Yes, they had the tests last year. My kids' school district came out "A" rated on the scale that was used last year. This year TEA upped the requirements for an "A" rating to the point where my kids' school district would be "C" rated if they achieve the same results as last year. There may be some grace built in to it, but as of the last school board meeting, they had not received much in the way of concrete guidance from TEA. See, public schools are failing, this is why we need private schools!
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Apr 18, 2023 23:06
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https://twitter.com/JeremySWallace/status/1648466836756000770 Thems the sorta words that leads to a 45 man sandbar knife fight
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DuckHuntDog posted:They rewrote the tests dramatically this year and expect the results to be catastrophic. Pretty much. The Reading component in elementary school has a short essay requirement and the rubric is absolutely loving nuts. Why they're implementing this so soon after the pandemic, where most districts are still reeling from what amounted to the loss of two years of instruction for most kids, is even more insane.
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Apr 19, 2023 02:15
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zoux posted:Oh yeah, Asian Americans are one of the biggest blocs against affirmative action, they loving hate it. Generally, of course. Texas A&M’s Vision 2020 study from 1997 led to an increase in Hispanic enrollment from single digit percentages to 20+% percent of students. Black students are still at 1-3%. So diversity strategies are a land of contrasts.
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JUST MAKING CHILI posted:Texas A&M’s Vision 2020 study from 1997 led to an increase in Hispanic enrollment from single digit percentages to 20+% percent of students. Black students are still at 1-3%. So diversity strategies are a land of contrasts. There's just an acceptable level of brown the State of Texas will tolerate so long as they also glom onto the greater homogeneous culture and be racist against their own people.
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It’s also half the state demographic ratio and I wouldn’t be surprised if the growth curve looks like x/2 UT isn’t any better, I think they’re like 5% black students, and they’ve been trying to increase diversity. I’m assuming good faith. zoux fucked around with this message at 03:31 on Apr 19, 2023 |
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Apr 19, 2023 03:28
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hatty posted:I remember TAKS being pretty easy is STAAR that much harder? The trick is that a ton of public school kids in Texas don't understand much English. We've got tons of kids that are relatively new immigrants and tons of kids that are siloed off in communities where you function primarily using other languages (and the only place you use English to any degree is in school, but even then... you're in school with a bunch of kids from your local community). The tests aren't difficult at all, really, if you're a native speaker. We also have weak ESL programs in the sense that you only truly get ESL services for a few years, then you get transitioned into regular classes. Once there, you're mixed in with non-ESL kids and tested on the same things as native speakers. If you're an older ESL kid, you may be sitting in a class that's tested on Shakespeare while you're reading at a fourth grade level. Then what? litany of gulps fucked around with this message at 04:29 on Apr 19, 2023 |
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Apr 19, 2023 04:27
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IT BURNS posted:Pretty much. The Reading component in elementary school has a short essay requirement and the rubric is absolutely loving nuts. Why they're implementing this so soon after the pandemic, where most districts are still reeling from what amounted to the loss of two years of instruction for most kids, is even more insane. They want to paint public schools as a failure, because it furthers their goal of privatizing education.
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Apr 19, 2023 05:01
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i fuckin' loved TAAS days in elementary. free snacks
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Apr 19, 2023 05:05
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They're finally hearing a raise the age for AR-15s to 21 bill (filed by rural Republican legislator) and the Uvalde families showed up to support it, waited 13 hours to testify. Rep. Bowers chewed out the NRA, and a few other people opposed to the bill decided not to testify. But after those folks, all the most batshit pro-gun people testified anyway. One dude just argued his 8-year old is mature enough to own a gun? There's always this Republican talking point of "why didn't the government address this dangerous person in some other way?". One of the Reps called it out "should the government have taken their guns away if they're so dangerous?" and it gets really dodgy after that. Like, I can't ever wrap my brain around the fact that these people identify someone as horrifically dangerous, but are still like "yeah, literally nothing should have been done to stop or slow them down from getting as many guns as possible." Mistaken Frisbee fucked around with this message at 05:36 on Apr 19, 2023 |
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Apr 19, 2023 05:33
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Another successful self-defense https://twitter.com/OliviaMesser/status/1648545972023095307
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Apr 19, 2023 05:40
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Man, there's been a lot of that this week (or there aren't other news stories to drown these out like normally?) https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/18/us/kansas-city-ralph-yarl-shooting-tuesday/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/18/us/woman-shot-wrong-driveway-upstate-new-york/index.html
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It's even more disturbing when you get past the headline. Only one cheerleader got into that car. She got out of the car quickly and got back into her friend's car, and he approached that car, then shot them after she apologized for the confusion. It wasn't even "someone is in my car and I impulsively shot them because I felt trapped" - it was just straight aggression on his part, going out of his way to do it.
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Mistaken Frisbee posted:It's even more disturbing when you get past the headline. Only one cheerleader got into that car. She got out of the car quickly and got back into her friend's car, and he approached that car, then shot them after she apologized for the confusion. It wasn't even "someone is in my car and I impulsively shot them because I felt trapped" - it was just straight aggression on his part, going out of his way to do it. I figured the go-to sleezebag move would be to try and lure the girls back into his car, not shoot them
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zoux posted:It’s also half the state demographic ratio and I wouldn’t be surprised if the growth curve looks like x/2 If you want a truly diverse campus, look no farther than the University of Houston.
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:I figured the go-to sleezebag move would be to try and lure the girls back into his car, not shoot them It sounds like this guy was just straight-up murderer waiting for an opportunity... quote:The four young women drove from the Round Rock area to Woodlands Elite Cheer Company in Oak Ridge three times each week for practice. They used the Elgin H-E-B as a carpool lot for the approximately 360-mile round-trip. Dude was sitting in the passenger seat of his turned-off car. He had his doors unlocked. It was just after midnight in the parking lot of an HEB that closed at 11pm. I think we're going to learn that this was a lot more premeditated than it looks at first glance.
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https://twitter.com/ElonMusgraves/status/1648671254134550528 Yankee libs keep your eyes in your own state. Flipped a border district in 2020, this mf doesn't know ball. This dude's number one issue, far and away, is gun control. Non-starter. Uvalde county itself went for Abbott 60/40, and went for Gutierrez' opponent 60/40 as well. zoux fucked around with this message at 14:41 on Apr 19, 2023 |
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Apr 19, 2023 14:38
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The Texas Democrats beat is like covering the NY Knicks.
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Apr 19, 2023 14:42
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No, because the Knicks occasionally win a game. TxDems: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkhrUM35CQo Replace every instance of "knicks" with "beto"
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Apr 19, 2023 14:44
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Like being a Yankee's reporter during a series with the Astros. 
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Edit: actually I'm not contributing to the discussion at all.
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poemdexter posted:Edit: actually I'm not contributing to the discussion at all. This has never stopped a poster from  .
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Shooting Blanks posted:If you want a truly diverse campus, look no farther than the University of Houston. -Downtown.
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