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FOR UNDERPRIVILEGED KIDS, THE BIGGEST OBSTACLES TO SUCCESS--HOMELESSNESS, HUNGER, VIOLENCE-RESIDE OUTSIDETHE CLASSROOM. DALLAS BUSINESSMAN RANDY BOWMAN, WHO GREW UP POOR HIMSELF, IS BETTING ON AN UNCONVENTIONAL FIX. A REAL HOME: [...]

'All hat and no cattle' is a Texas phrase that means all talk and no substance. (Garry Trudeau in Doonesbury often uses this idiom to depict President Bush, who appears [...]

Byline: Katherine Mangan Pharr, Tex. -- James Cruz was still hurting after failing three out of four exams needed to graduate from high school when a woman knocked on his [...]

A Texas school district is trying to close its digital divide by distributing thousands of Apple tablet computers in a move that could make it the largest iPad program for [...]

Byline: Audrey Williams June In Florida, college professors, presidents and lawmakers are preparing for a vigorous debate about faculty performance, pay, and productivity. That's because Gov. Rick Scott, a Republican, [...]

Worrisome trends in achievement have been identified for students of color in high minority, high poverty (HMHP) high schools, as they are less likely to attend college and encounter greater challenges in accessing higher education than peers in wealthier schools. To address this inequity, this article presents descriptions of how these school environments affected the motivation and attitudes of students of color in an urban Texas context considering postsecondary education, and examines how this population utilized and leveraged forms of capital to achieve their postsecondary goals. Findings from the qualitative study revealed that students found support for their higher education goals through invested teachers, counselors, community members, and peers, though they encountered unsupportive examples from these populations as well. Additionally, participants negotiated stereotypes about their schools and communities, while holding positive attitudes about their communities. Given the fact that Texas, like many other states, is an emerging majority-minority state and residential segregation is increasing across much of the nation, this article contributes to our knowledge of how an often-neglected population successfully realizes their college aspirations. At a time when more complex issues of desegregating schools and communities continue to be discussed in the public policy arena, the authors provide recommendations to researchers, educators, and parents invested in ensuring that students in HMHP high schools access college. Keywords college access, high poverty, high minority schools, social capital, Educational Importance and Relevant Research Although college attendance rates for students of color have increased since the 1960s, students in HMHP schools are less likely to graduate and attend college [...]

Byline: David Glenn Business people and schoolteachers build their vocations around words. But at some colleges, it is possible to earn a four-year undergraduate degree in business or education without [...]

Most school districts have the technical infrastructure to support the basic digital textbooks of today. But as far as supporting the kinds of textbooks tech-savvy educators would like to see—multimedia-rich, [...]

Teachers across Texas are gaining a new vehicle for sharing professional-development materials and course information after Gov. Rick Perry recently announced the creation of a Texas Education iTunes U channel. [...]

Republican moderates are always on the lookout for a chance to throw social conservatives under the bus. But sometimes the so-cons jump, as in the recent fight over Texas's history [...]

Texas is in a battle over its public-school history curriculum, in which the founder of the Mary Kay cosmetics company currently receives more prominent notice than does Christopher Columbus--and which [...]

Improving performance is linked in part to immigration policy THE University of Texas-El Paso (UTEP) is one of the most binational of America's big universities. Some 90% of its students [...]

Byline: DAN CARNEVALE The University of Texas at Austin is developing online courses for Mexican immigrants attending high school in the United States to introduce them to the American education [...]

I recently received an email with a headline that made me do a double-take. It read: 'Science Education Triumphs in Texas.' These days, I'm not used to science education triumphing [...]

THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION--the fifteen-member elected body that decides the curriculum standards known as the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills, or TEKS--has been no stranger to controversy in recent [...]