News & Politics
September 17, 2013
“It’s Not a School Problem”
Diane Ravitch’s scorched-earth critique of high-stakes testing and education reform.
Public school reform
Politics & Policy
April 10, 2013
Crash Test
Over the past two decades a movement to increase the importance of standardized testing in public schools has swept across the country. It was born in Texas. Is Texas also where it might die?
News & Politics
January 21, 2013
A Q&A With Mimi Swartz
The executive editor on the controversial superintendent of the Houston Independent School District, the politics involved in public education, and how parents need to be more vocal and vigilant.
News & Politics
January 21, 2013
Super Collider
Terry Grier is the hard-charging, reform-minded, optimistic superintendent of the largest school district in the state. He’s also the most divisive, embattled, and despised man in Houston. Did it have to be this way?
News & Politics
August 31, 2010
The Super
After a year on the job, the superintendent of the largest school district in Texas is loathed and loved in equal measure. Does that mean he’s doing his job?