George and Anne Scott are launching Middle School Up Literacy with a passionate dedication to help parents really help their children in the Texas public education system.
Anne is now a recently retired English Language Arts classroom teacher of 28 years with incredible experience and insight into the academic needs of students in the 6th through 9th grades. George is a retired journalist and public policy analyst and research with a special focus in Texas public education issues.
We have three primary goals:
- Provide you credible diagnostic assessments in English usage and math for middle school students which can include a professional review of your child’s academic records and independent assessments as helpful. The English test will be available immediately; the math test will be available soon.
- Provide effective and cost-effective reading and English usage lessons to students at all skill levels, including successful students who want to advance even further. We also offer targeted personal assistance and advice.
- Help you personally to genuinely understand what the TEA’s testing and accountability system denies you in order to help you more effectively understand and advocate within the system for your children about their genuine academic needs.
Here’s a sad truth. If you depend upon the Texas Education Agency’s deceptive testing and accountability system that has seriously manipulated passing and grade level academic standards in all subjects and grade levels for three decades to understand your child’s genuine needs, you have the wrong partner.
Please follow our introductory posts and videos here which will explain how we are going to try to help you as a real partner. Then we are going to do our best to do it.
We are not going to overwhelm you from the start with numbers about student performance. However, we will provide you that extensive data focusing upon Katy ISD and the State you need to make your decisions going forward. That data will soon include the posting of campus-by-campus scores from 5th grade through end of course high school testing on the most recent STAAR testing results in every subject.
Anne’s experience in actual classrooms with thousands of children of a wide range of academic skills has inspired her to create hundreds of specific instructional lessons that promote academic recovery and genuine academic growth.
George’s decades of public policy analysis with a enduring focus on Texas public education from the start has made him one of the few Texas experts in understanding and proving how the TEA has manipulated the system to deny you the information you need to make the best educational decisions for your children.
Together, their goal is to use Middle School Up Literacy to help you help your children.