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Tag Archives: cscope

CSCOPE critic Alice Linahan

by Christopher Hooks

Next Frontier in Common Core Fight: Cut Budgets, Jail Teachers?

Tue, Jun 24, 2014 |

An an anti-Common Core strategy session in Austin, the faithful are ready to take it to the next level....Read More

Ginger Russell

by Patrick Michels

The Great CSCOPE Panic Goes Out with a Whimper

Tue, Feb 25, 2014 |

A long-awaited review for liberal bias in classroom lessons wasn't the smoking gun CSCOPE's critics suggested it would be....Read More

Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst

by Jonathan McNamara

Observer Radio Episode 35: Texas’ Anti-Abortion Law, CSCOPE and an Invasion by Lizard People

Fri, Nov 22, 2013 |

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

Crowd at the CSCOPE debate at UT Tyler

by Olivia Messer

Dan Patrick and Thomas Ratliff Slug it Out Over CSCOPE

Sun, Aug 25, 2013 |

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

Jeanine McGregor leads a CSCOPE presentation.

by Patrick Michels

Adios, Reality: Texas Culture Wars Take a Madcap Turn

How a curriculum planning tool called CSCOPE came to fixate the Texas Tea Party.

Fri, Aug 16, 2013 |

Before its life as a tea party bugaboo and a campaign punching bag, CSCOPE was just another program keeping Texas' schools running....Read More

Anti-CSCOPE activist Alice Linahan

by Patrick Michels

Restraining Order Puts Llano ISD at Center of CSCOPE Controversy

Mon, Aug 12, 2013 |

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

by Patrick Michels

Tue, Jul 30, 2013

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

by Patrick Michels

Fri, Jul 26, 2013

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

by Patrick Michels

For Tea Party, CSCOPE Stands for Winning

Mon, May 20, 2013 |

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

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