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'Alternative' Textbook Banned From Texas School District

Posted 08.28.2012 | Home
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Fake Science 101: A Less-Than-Factual Guide to Our Amazing World has been banned by the Houston Independent School District, the Houston Press blog Ha...

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Teen Who Shot And Injured Peer Says He Was Bullied

AP | Posted 01.11.2012 | Home
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HOUSTON -- A Houston teenager accused of shooting a classmate in the leg at school says he was defending himself from a group of boys who have been bu...

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10-Year-Old Boys Charged With Sexual Assault On School Bus, Could Get 40 Years

AP | By JUAN A. LOZANO | Posted 01.10.2012 | Home
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HOUSTON -- Houston police say two 10-year-old boys have been charged with sexually assaulting an 8-year-old boy on a school bus. The boys were arrest...

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Hundreds Of Students Caught Cheating At 'Exemplary' School

Posted 03.06.2012 | Home
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Hundreds of high school seniors in Texas were caught cheating on their final exams last month. Now, officials at the southeast Houston Clear Creek Ind...

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Charter School Scaling Experiment Takes Shape In Houston

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 12.12.2011 | Home
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An ambitious experiment created by Harvard economist Roland Fryer to export and scale the practices of high-performing charter school chains to public...

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Why Successful School Turnarounds Work

John Thompson | Posted 08.12.2011 | Home
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It is true that "troublemakers" are potential leaders, but turning them around takes a commitment that has been lost on most data-driven reformers.

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Texas Turmoil: Thousands Of Educators Protest Budget Cuts At Capitol

Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
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As spring break kicks off, thousands of educators from around the state are hardly vacationing. Instead, they're protesting budget cuts at the state c...

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8-Year-Old Girl Donates Allowance Money To Save School Art Classes

Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
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Alarmed that her favorite class, and its teacher, might be axed amid school budget cuts, Houston girl Elodie Giles wanted to help. The 8-year-old Tra...

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