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Equity lecture to examine
future of Texas education
Hispanic population could be
majority by the year 2020
By Sam King
Within five years, the Hispanic popula
tion may be the majority in Texas. With
this in mind, students at Texas A&M are
sponsoring a lecture to examine and evalu
ate the education of Hispanic youth.
The Project for Equity, Representation
and Governance and the Council for Mi
nority Student Affairs are co-hosting Angela
Valenzuela, a professor in the Educational
Policy and Planning Program at the Univer
sity of Texas at Austin. The Thursday dis
cussion will focus on educational account
ability, specifically among Latino youth and
low-income families.
Roxann Lerma, biochemistry senior and
public relations representative for CMSA,
said the lecture covers a topic that is increas
ingly impacting Texas.
“Latinos are the biggest minority in Texas
A&M and this is a very important topic due
to Latinos will be the majority in Texas in
2020, which is five years from now,” Lerma
said. “Also, the university just introduced a
Latino and Mexican American Studies mi
nor and so this just makes this impact that
Latinos are making a great impact in Texas.”
Kenneth Meier, distinguished political
science professor and director of PERG, said
a lack of education affects people through
out their lives.
“If you don’t get access to quality educa
tion, you have trouble getting good jobs,
you tend to have trouble getting adequate
housing, you tend to live in a neighborhood
with more crime, you tend to feel less happy
about your life, your children don’t prosper
as well,” Meier said. “Education is sort of
the cornerstone upon which human happi
ness gets built in contemporary society.”
While educational testing is a national
subject, Valenzuela said Texas is examining
its high-stakes assessments, which include
STAR and TAKS tests. In recent years,
high-stakes testing has become a topic of dis
cussion within legislature, a discussion that
Valenzuela said Texas is in the middle of.
“Texas is ground zero for high-stakes
testing,” Valenzuela said. “We have already
been able to make some changes as a state
that already hold promise for states else
where. For example, in 2009, we eliminat
ed high-stakes consequences tests for third
graders due in great part to the work of the
Texas Center for Education Policy.”
Valenzuel said that while these actions
positively impacted 300,000 third-graders,
the legislation dealing with assessments did
not go far enough.
“In light of the current backlash, it is
important to develop responsible, research-
based solutions that require a significant re
thinking of public education curriculum and
instruction in ways that honor and respect
children’s languages, communities and iden
tities in ways that can serve as the basis for a
culturally responsive, world-class education
al opportunity for all of Texas’ children,”
Valenzuela said.
Lerma said this lecture is applicable in one
form or another to every person in Texas,
and that faculty, staff' and students alike
should make an effort to attend.
“This is not a Latino-based lecture,” Le
rma said. “It’s a lecture that I think is most
ly based on Texans. Her research is based
mainly on Texas, so I think if you’re Texan
you should come to the lecture.”
Meier said the lecture’s scope is wide,
making it relevant to a wider crowd.
“I think it’s very important that every
body hears this,” Meier said. “At Texas
A&M, we are a rapidly transitioning uni
versity and we live in a very, very diverse
state that’s getting more and more diverse.
This means that paying attention to what the
K-12 education system is in Texas, I think is
vitally important for maintaining the type of
quality institution we are.”
The lecture titled, “Reinventing Assess
ment in Texas: Next Generation Account
ability and Assessment,” will be from 5:30-
6:40 p.m. Thursday in Rudder 302. The
event is free and open to the public.
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