When I confide my anxiety that I have fewer than 10 students in one of the two classes I teach twice a week, Ryan shares his relief that he has fewer than 30 in one of the six classes he teaches every day. After I express my impatience with students who do not read deeply, Ryan tells me about students who cannot read at all.
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A new textbook watchdog, rooted in conservative grassroots activism, drove the debate over Texas’ new social studies books—and they’re just getting started.
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How Beaumont’s racial divisions created the most dysfunctional school district in Texas.
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Years of high-stakes testing, chronic under-funding and news stories about failing schools have made things difficult for Texas teachers.
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In time for Banned Books Week, Highland Park schools have banned seven books.
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Texas’ public technical colleges often promote their high job placement rates, but the real measure of their programs’ success is more complex.
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Idaho’s Athlos Academies marries real estate deals, upscale gyms and schools in a novel business plan funded by Texas taxpayers.
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When Dr. Walter Stroup showed that Texas’ standardized testing regime is flawed, the testing company struck back.
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The Legislature has been talking big in the Capitol about the state’s high expectations, while refusing to give schools the resources needed to meet those standards. In his school finance ruling last week, Judge John Dietz writes that the state had better put its money where its mouth is.
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Judge John Dietz rules Texas’ school finance system is unconstitutional, closing a years-long trial and sending the case on to the Texas Supreme Court.
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