Tag Archives: cscope
Next Frontier in Common Core Fight: Cut Budgets, Jail Teachers?
An an anti-Common Core strategy session in Austin, the faithful are ready to take it to the next level....Read More
The Great CSCOPE Panic Goes Out with a Whimper
A long-awaited review for liberal bias in classroom lessons wasn't the smoking gun CSCOPE's critics suggested it would be....Read More
Observer Radio Episode 35: Texas’ Anti-Abortion Law, CSCOPE and an Invasion by Lizard People
Freelance writer Saul Elbein stops by discuss his story about America's conspiracy theory culture. Then he accuses us of being lizard people. No, seriously....Read More
Dan Patrick and Thomas Ratliff Slug it Out Over CSCOPE
The year's hottest education debate centered on an unlikely subject: CSCOPE, the once-obscure curriculum program built for Texas schools that's been targeted fo...Read More
Adios, Reality: Texas Culture Wars Take a Madcap Turn
How a curriculum planning tool called CSCOPE came to fixate the Texas Tea Party.
Before its life as a tea party bugaboo and a campaign punching bag, CSCOPE was just another program keeping Texas' schools running....Read More
Restraining Order Puts Llano ISD at Center of CSCOPE Controversy
CSCOPE opponents announced at a press conference today that they've secured a temporary restraining order preventing Llano ISD teachers from using lessons from ...Read More
Thomas Ratliff Takes on Tea Party Over CSCOPE Panic
State Board of Education member Thomas Ratliff has emerged as CSCOPE's most outspoken defender at the state level—one of the very few elected officials willin...Read More
CSCOPE Takes Another Awful Spin Around the News Cycle
Just in time for the lieutenant governor's race, politicians are blustering over a fresh wave of CSCOPE outrage: the much-maligned lessons may now be free for a...Read More
For Tea Party, CSCOPE Stands for Winning
At the Capitol this morning, Sen. Dan Patrick made a surprise announcement: "The era of CSCOPE lesson plans has come to an end."...Read More