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State assessment exams are always a drag, but imagine being told that they were going to be made even more challenging! In Texas, a new and much more ...
State assessment exams are always a drag, but imagine being told that they were going to be made even more challenging! In Texas, a new and much more ...
Posted 12.14.2011
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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Posted 01.29.2012
This piece comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report. DENTON, Texas — One afternoon in mid-November, Jeff Arrington scattered 80 paper gingerb...
Posted 11.22.2011
15-year-old Brenda Brinsdon, a sophomore at a high school in Rio Grande Valley, Texas, refused to participate when her Spanish 3 teacher assigned stud...
Posted 01.22.2012
A Dallas elementary school that was given "exemplary" status for academic achievement only taught its third graders reading and math last year, and fa...
Posted 01.11.2012
A recent report says Texas K-12 standards in history are inadequate, ineffective and "fail to meet the state's college readiness standards," and the r...
Posted 12.13.2011
A Texas student is upset with school officials, saying administrators went too far when they used a permanent marker to fill in lines shaved into his ...
Texas Observer | Abby Rapoport | Posted 12.12.2011
It's not hard to imagine Pearson's vision of utopia. Pearson is a London-based mega-corporation that owns everything from the Financial Times to Pe...
AP | By APRIL CASTRO and PAUL J. WEBER | Posted 12.11.2011
AUSTIN, Texas -- A coalition of more than 150 Texas school districts said Tuesday it has filed a lawsuit against the state over a school funding syste...
Posted 11.26.2011
By RAMIT PLUSHNICK-MASTI, ASSOCIATED PRESS (AP) PASADENA, Texas -- Three commissioners appointed by Gov. Rick Perry may grant some of the nation's ...
AP | Posted 10.09.2011
DeSOTO, Texas -- A Dallas-area school board voted Monday to sever ties with its new superintendent, who was caught in the fallout of a test-cheating s...
Posted 09.18.2011
A study released today shows results that one of its authors told Education Week should raise the question among state education leaders: "Is our stat...
Posted 03.28.2012