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April 25, 2013

Title: Update on SSCOPE Straight from the Man Himelf
Topic: SSCOPE

Discussed by Senator Dan Patrick
with Dan Patrick www.DanPatrick.org

Part 1 of 2

Senator Dan Patrick is very passionate about education, especially about finding a solution to fix the broken system. He is spearheading the education reform effort with SB1724 and is receiving a lot of grief from some lobbyists.

But he refuses to give in to their bullying, and many of his colleagues have his back.

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Title: Part 2 of 2
Topic: SSCOPE

Discussed by Senator Dan Patrick
with Dan Patrick www.DanPatrick.org

One of the biggest issues Dan Patrick and many others have with SSCOPE is the new STAAR testing system that students are required to take. Teachers exhaust many wasted hours and days prepping their students for the STAAR tests, with little or no results.

There is a lot of misinformation floating around about SSCOPE and the STAAR test.

Listen to Dan Patrick as explains the facts.

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Title: The STAAR Writing is a Big Step Backward
Topic: SSCOPE

Discussed by Terry Lowry
with Host of the What's UP Radio Program

Melissa McCann Cooper took a chance.  Actually, some people might think that Melissa had a moment of insanity. Melissa is a Language Arts teacher at Murchison Middle School in Austin, TX and she dared to write a letter criticizing the STAAR writing test and mailed it to the American Statesman.

Host of The What’s UP Radio Program, Terry Lowry, reads her letter here.

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