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Could You Pass The 8th Grade By Today's Testing Standards?

Posted 03.30.2012

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As Texas students started taking a new state-mandated test this week, districts across the state have gradually signed on to a resolution that says hi...

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Texas District Embarks On Widespread iPad Program To Close Digital Divide

AP | By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN | Posted 02.27.2012

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McALLEN, Texas -- A Texas school district is trying to close its digital divide by distributing thousands of Apple tablet computers in a move that cou...

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Superintendent Bans School Sports To Save District

Posted 03.24.2012

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In a desperate effort to boost student performance and save a school system from closure, one Texas school district has made the mid-year decision to ...

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Districts File Third Suit Against State Over School Funding

Posted 12.14.2011

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A third group of Texas schools filed suit against the state Tuesday over education funding, alleging that the system of financing public education is ...

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For-Profit Teacher Certification Booming

| Nick Pandolfo and Morgan Smith | Posted 01.29.2012

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This piece comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report. DENTON, Texas — One afternoon in mid-November, Jeff Arrington scattered 80 paper gingerb...

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Teachers Make Own Lesson Plans For 9/11

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 11.09.2011

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NEW YORK -- Brook Peters saw the twin towers fall on his second day of kindergarten at Manhattan's P.S. 150. He was 4 years old and eight blocks away,...

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Rick Perry Struggles To Answer Question About Sex Ed: 'Abstinence Works'

Posted 10.24.2011

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Last summer, Texas chose to pass on $4.4 million in federal funds aimed at sex education for adolescents in the state, The Texas Tribune reported. ...

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Evolutionary Science Materials In Texas Get Preliminary Approval

AP | By JIM VERTUNO | Posted 09.20.2011

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AUSTIN, Texas -- An expected fight over teaching evolution in Texas classrooms fizzled Thursday when the state's Board of Education gave preliminary a...

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Assault On Texas Education

Carolyn Foote | Posted 08.05.2011

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Carolyn Foote

It's up to each of us to speak up about the importance of education in every state across the nation. As parents, students, educators, grandparents -- we have a voice.

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When You Can't Think... Test

Pamela Kripke | Posted 05.25.2011

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What do the state's education people do to reverse its sorry statistics? Here's a hint. They don't improve curriculums beyond the rote memorization model, or spend more cash per pupil.

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Texas Sues Feds Over $830 Million In Education Aid

AP | APRIL CASTRO | Posted 05.25.2011

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AUSTIN, Texas — Texas officials filed a lawsuit Thursday against the U.S. Department of Education, seeking to overturn the federal agency's reje...

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The Texas State Board of Education Embraces Islamophobia

Michael Zimmerman, Ph.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

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Islamophobia, the virulent strain of religious hatred that has been spreading like wildfire across the country, is set to put in an appearance at the Texas State Board of Education.

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Texas' Future Threatened By Poverty, Staggering Dropout Rates

Houston Chronicle | Posted 05.25.2011

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The demographer who warned a decade ago about Texas' unhappy mix of dismal education achievement and high poverty is more concerned than ever. Actuall...

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Texas Panel Wants Students To Complete 10% Of Degrees Online

Posted 05.25.2011

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A Texas panel on higher education recently published a list of recommendations for the state's colleges -- one of which suggests that 10 percent of a ...

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Tarballs and Tainted History

Rachel Farris | Posted 05.25.2011

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Education is quickly draining out of Texas classrooms, and as the oil spill made its way onto Texas beaches this weekend, word of the brain-drain that is our State Board of Education has most certainly gotten out.

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An Open Letter to the Texas Board of Education From a Survivor of Its Public School System

Disgrasian | Posted 05.25.2011

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Disgrasian

As someone who received nearly my entire education -- grades 2-12 -- in the Texas public schools system, I must admit that I don't understand what all the fuss is about.

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Texas Conservatives Seek Deeper Stamp On Textbooks

nytimes.com | James C. McKinley Jr. | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Texas school board is holding hearings on changes to its social studies curriculum that would portray conservatives in a more positive light, emph...

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God, History And The Texas Public Schools: A Debate That Impacts All Of Us

Brad Hirschfield | Posted 05.25.2011

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Brad Hirschfield

Even if we are believers, we know that there is a difference between teaching about the history of religion in America and preaching the Gospel to a captive audience of children in our nation's classrooms.

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Conservatives Trying To Rewrite History In Texas Schools

The Texas Tribune | Brian Thevenot | Posted 05.25.2011

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In three grueling sessions last year, a nine-member curriculum committee appointed by members of the State Board of Education met to hammer out which ...

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