Texans want a better way to measure schools | Opinion
Next year, Texas legislators can finally break our state’s overreliance on a single test in the teaching of our children and the evaluation of our public schools. It is an opportunity to deliver the relief and sensible reform that parents and educators consistently say they support and want. It is also a chance to move Texas toward a system that better tells us whether schools are meeting the expectations of employers and Texans.
STAAR is not our only option for measuring schools, as any teacher would tell you. Teachers also know that success can and should be gauged by graduation from high school, earning a job with a livable wage, entry into higher education or military service, engagement in fulfilling extracurricular activities, healthy friendships, growth in confidence and curiosity, and more. These are just a few of the areas that we all instinctively look to when measuring personal success.
At least that’s what we hear from a key consumer of public education — the employers who look to our public schools to prepare its future workforce. Executives in the business coaching industry recently described tothe importance of 15 “soft skills,” such as empathy, creative problem-solving and observation skills, that are important for prospective employees to demonstrate.
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