{"id":15525,"date":"2011-08-09T04:10:32","date_gmt":"2011-08-09T04:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=15525"},"modified":"2012-04-10T02:09:10","modified_gmt":"2012-04-10T02:09:10","slug":"texas-bucks-u-s-trend-on-standardized-scoring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=15525","title":{"rendered":"Texas bucks U.S. trend on standardized scoring"},"content":{"rendered":"

Texas bucks U.S. trend on standardized scoring<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Houston Chronicle<\/a>
\n2011-07-25<\/p>\n

Jennifer Radcliffe<\/a><\/strong>
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\nIt will tally multiracial students but not report their scores separately<\/em><\/p>\n

Multiracial students are being tallied for the first time in Texas<\/a> history, but their standardized test scores won’t appear as a separate group when accountability ratings are released Friday.<\/p>\n

As it grapples with increasing diversity, Texas has opted not to measure the scores of the state’s 78,419 multiracial, non-Hispanic students as an ethnic subgroup whose performance matters in determining whether a school made “adequate yearly progress.”
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\nInstead, they’ll join the ranks of the 180,000 Asian students lumped in with their schools’ entire student body for accountability purposes…<\/p>\n

…Some scores moved<\/strong>
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\nAs Texas transitions to the new categories this year, state officials have opted to return some multiracial students’ scores to their previous category, if records indicate that the student was originally listed as white or African American. Their scores will only count in that previous category if they improve the school’s rating…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Texas bucks U.S. trend on standardized scoring Houston Chronicle 2011-07-25 Jennifer Radcliffe \u00a0 It will tally multiracial students but not report their scores separately Multiracial students are being tallied for the first time in Texas history, but their standardized test scores won’t appear as a separate group when accountability ratings are released Friday. As it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2895,8,26,1249,20],"tags":[7159,7160,20760],"class_list":["post-15525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-campus-life","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-texas","category-usa","tag-houston-chronicle","tag-jennifer-radcliffe","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}