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Robert Zaretsky

Professor, University of Houston

Robert Zaretsky is a professor of French history in the University of Houston Honors College and the Department of Modern and Classical Languages. He is a parent with two children in Clear Creek Independent School District.

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Tying Texas school funding to testing hurts students and taxpayers

By Robert Zaretsky, Sept. 30, 2016

If Texas uses STAAR testing as a basis for school funding, the state's slow creep toward a separate and unequal school system will turn into a sprint.