Tag: Texas Education

  • CSCOPE or C-SCAM?

    By Peggy Venable . CSCOPE is among the most controversial topics in the Lone Star State. Surprisingly, many Texans have never heard of it. . CSCOPE is a curriculum management system that has been sold to more than 850 Texas public, private and charter schools. It was developed by a division of the Texas Education…

  • Parents told to pay to see CSCOPE

    Controversy over Texas program that described Tea Party as terror escalates by John Griffing   A controversial school curriculum management system in Texas that once included a description of the Boston Tea Party as terror, and has referenced Islamic terrorists as freedom fighters, now has been found to be trying to charge parents hundreds of…

  • The Pigs and the Scale

    by Brent Beasley Here’s a little something I wrote this morning in honor of STAAR testing:  The farmer wants his pigs to be fat. Of course he does. The fatter the better. He became concerned when he realized that, even though he fed them all the same, some pigs were fatter than others. The problem,…