Across the Lawn – May 5, 2023
Raise Your Hand Texas has a front-row seat to the Capitol. From our vantage point, public education policy issues have never been more important, and this is why we must make every session a...
Across the Lawn – April 21, 2023
Raise Your Hand Texas has a front-row seat to the Capitol. From our vantage point, public education policy issues have never been more important, and this is why we must make every session a...
Across The Lawn – April 14, 2023
Raise Your Hand Texas has a front-row seat to the Capitol. From our vantage point, public education policy issues have never been more important, and this is why we must make every session a...
2023 Texas Legislature: Assessment and Accountability is More Than 32 Questions
Guest Blog by Dr. Alicia Noyola, Superintendent of Harlingen Consolidated Independent School District Public schools across Texas work year-round to prepare students for a successful future. Our schools are where our Texas students discover...
THE STAAR TEST IS ONLY PART OF WHAT HAPPENS IN OUR SCHOOLS
Let’s Tell the Whole Story of Student Success When it comes to evaluating how our students are learning and preparing for the 21st-century workforce, one message is nearly universal: the STAAR test does not...
Establishing Middle Ground for Testing and Accountability in Texas
The STAAR test is Texas’ statewide student testing program. Each year more than 5.4 million students sit at their desks and try to focus on this post-mortem, end-of-year high-stakes test as they go heads-down...
Time to Reduce High-Stakes Nature of STAAR is Now
Raise Your Hand Texas announces recommendations to reducehigh-stakes nature of STAAR in state’s accountability system On October 25, Raise Your Hand Texas released A Report from the Measure What Matters Assessment & Accountability Council....
Rethinking School Assessment and Accountability
On January 18, 2022, Raise Your Hand Texas hosted our first-ever policy conference, the Measure What Matters: Assessment and Accountability Conference. The event was part of a statewide listening and engagement campaign created to...
