{"id":2147,"date":"2007-02-05T22:57:29","date_gmt":"2007-02-06T06:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/migrator.rab.olt.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2007\/02\/texans-and-their-tests\/"},"modified":"2007-02-05T22:57:29","modified_gmt":"2007-02-06T06:57:29","slug":"texans-and-their-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2007\/02\/texans-and-their-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"Texans and Their Tests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/insidehighered.com\/news\/2007\/02\/02\/texas\"><em>Inside Higher Ed:<\/em> Texans and Their Tests<\/a><\/p>\n<p>When the Education Secretary\u2019s Commission on the Future of Higher Education started meeting, many professors and college leaders feared it would push for some sort of mandatory standardized testing of graduating college seniors \u2014 a prospect they saw as inconsistent with the values of liberal education. In the end, the Spellings Commission didn\u2019t make such a recommendation. But in Texas \u2014 home to the education secretary and the panel\u2019s chair \u2014 mandatory standardized testing for graduating seniors may now be on the way.<\/p>\n<p>Texas Gov. Rick Perry, a Republican, on Thursday proposed a major expansion of state support for public higher education and for student aid. He also proposed one of the broadest testing requirements for graduating college students to date. Seniors would be required to take either licensure exams in their fields or Education Testing Service exams for various college majors. While students would not be required to pass the exams to graduate, colleges\u2019 state funds would be linked to students\u2019 scores, so institutions where many students did well on the standardized exams would get more money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inside Higher Ed: Texans and Their Tests When the Education Secretary\u2019s Commission on the Future of Higher Education started meeting, many professors and college leaders feared it would push for some sort of mandatory standardized testing of graduating college seniors &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2007\/02\/texans-and-their-tests\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2249],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}