Texas school board delays change to English curriculum

Education groups have convinced the State Board of Education to slow down a plan to revamp the way schools teach English and writing to the state’s 4.6 million public school children. Most experts agree that the current English language arts curriculum isn’t getting the job done. Nearly one-third of all Texas 8th graders scored “below basic” on the 2005 National Assessment of Educational Progress for reading, with 44 percent of African-American students, 41 percent of Hispanic students and 18 percent of white students not able to read well enough for high school course work. Read more of this article from the Houston Chronicle.