COMMENTARY FROM TEACHERS AND STUDENTS ABOUT CSCOPE:
It's pretty clear to me that there are lots of idiots out there! Look at this blurb from the Graham ISD. These people don't even realize that there is a law that says they have to do something else for lesson plans next fall! DUH!!! Quit your complaining--that's two months away. Anyone who can't make up a lesson plan in two months has no business teaching school. These are just lazy teachers! Mary McGarr
"At Tuesday night's regular school
board meeting, members heard from four CSCOPE proponents —
two teachers and two parents.
First grade teacher Benny Ramsey, GHS world geography
teacher Anne Routon along with parents Mark Thayer and
Beth Gober addressed the board with their positive
opinions on the controversial curriculum management
system.
Here's another one from Hutto ISD where they are asking the school board to try to get a waiver for their school district so they can use the lesson plans anyway!
Posted: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 9:00 am
HISD to ask for C-SCOPE waiver Christine Bolaños newsdesk
Effective Aug. 31, all CSCOPE lessons will be taken off the customizable, online curriculum management system aligned with the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills’ website.
This leaves school teachers, including those at Hutto ISD, scrambling to write lessons in the two-and-half months before school starts.
It's just hard to believe these people! MM
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Blog post on Teacher.net:
Pretty
much, C-SCOPE isn't about making Einstein's or D'Vinci's
it's about increasing test performance. Public education
isn't
about the kids, it's about money and the scores. If
parents really
cared about their children they would make the investment
in a good
private school for their kids. The idea that parents have
options is
a huge joke at the office, if the options were feasible to
parents
they would have already done them, C-SCOPE or not.
March 15, 2013 – Sent from E. W.
Burt, Business/Marketing Teacher, Blanket ISD:
CSCOPE Study – Compiled by 9th
Grade Business Class, Blanket ISD, Blanket, Texas
My business class asked me what
CSCOPE is and if it works. I told them, “Let’s find
out if schools that use CSCOPE score better or
worse compared to schools that do not use it.”
To this end, we took a list of
CSCOPE schools and a list of STAAR/End-of-Course
scores (2011-12 School Year) from public schools
statewide. Each class member took a portion of the
more than 1,000 Texas public schools and recorded
the STAAR/EOC test results on a spreadsheet. We
compared Algebra I, Biology I, English Writing 1,
and Geography. Here is what we found:
Percent of test takers scoring
unacceptable
on STAAR/EOC tests –
Algebra I
CSCOPE ; 20.35%
Non- CSCOPE 13.74%
48% more CSCOPE students scored
unsatisfactory than Non-CSCOPE
Biology I
CSCOPE 14.86%
Non- CSCOPE 10.50%
42% more CSCOPE students scored
unsatisfactory than Non-CSCOPE
English Writing I
CSCOPE 46.30%
Non- CSCOPE 39.48%
19.57% more CSCOPE students
scored unsatisfactory than Non-CSCOPE
Geography
CSCOPE 23.30%
Non- CSCOPE 17.78%
37.06% more CSCOPE students
scored unsatisfactory than Non-CSCOPE
Average 36.67% higher
unsatisfactory rate among CSCOPE students on all
tests
*Over 950 Texas ISDs surveyed
Data from
http://www.texastribune.org/library/data/staar-district-results-2011-2012/
http://www.txcscopereview.com/2012/cscope-rotten-apple-award/
E. W. Burt, Business/ Marketing
teacher
Freshman Business Class, Blanket
ISD