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Scott, Cornyn Address Texas Education Summit

by Will Lutz

Fri, Apr 25, 2008, 12:35 PM

Education Commissioner Robert Scott spoke today at the 2008 Statewide Education Summit, put on by the Texas Public Education Reform Foundation at the Austin Convention Center. The recent controversies over the English Language Arts curriculum came up. Front and center in his discussion of the curriculum was the debate regarding whether to teach grammar or critical thinking skills. Ability to think is great, Scott said, "but if the kid walks in the door to a job and he can think all day long and has grammatical errors on a resume and punctuation errors, they're not going to get the job. You got to have that balance." He commended the State Board of Education for coming to a "compromise" on the ELAR curriculum.

"I do not believe any member of the board or anybody involved in the standards writing process had any will or ill intent in their heart towards Hispanic students or English language learners," he said.

He also argued that the purpose of the curriculum standards were to show teachers what to teach, but not how to teach it. "You shouldn't put the 'how' into your curriculum standards document," he said.

Also featured at the summit was Republican U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, former Texas Attorney General. He spoke of reforming the federal No Child Left Behind program, saying, "We need to put additional flexibility in the states, so that we don't have Washington DC dictating a one-size-fits-all solution for 300 billion people and all the students in the nation."

"Right now we have a lot of gameplaying in No Child Left Behind," Cornyn said, "actually some of the states lowering their standards in order to be able to show progress."

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