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Playing God at UT.
Playing God at UT.
In the Gulf Coast town of Santa Fe, high school football games had always kicked off with a prayer, but in June the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the practice violated the separation of church and state. Now the issuewhich has turned neighbor against neighbor and provoked some decidedly un-Christian
For an East Texas school, there’s nothing elementary about George W. Bush’s education plan.
See You in the Playoffs4A La Marque has made it to the state finals six straight years. 3A Sealy won four consecutive state titles between 1994 and 1997. Both teams have racked up more than a hundred victories in the nineties, as have 5A Austin Westlake, 5A Converse Judson, 4A
Read all about her.
Even in death, the former principal of El Paso’s Cathedral High is larger than life.
Fort Worth officers and teachers get to know Marilyn Manson.
How an African American from Houston’s Fifth Ward rose to become the president of a mostly white, exceedingly
An A&M extension class gets beefy.
Why was Mirabeau B. Lamar known as the Father of Texas Education?
How five right-wing members of the State Board of Education are making life miserable for their fellow Republicans—especially George W. Bush.
A TAAS test test.
Thirty years ago I was a barrio kid with little hope for a college degree. Then the alternative school Chinquapin turned my life around.
Diversity U.
Long before they were chart-topping musicians, Erykah Badu and Roy Hargrove made the grade at an arts magnet school in Dallas.
What kind of person would be best at figuring out how to spend $295,000? A poet, of course. That kind of money might be chump change to Charles Barkley, but to the prototypical starving artist, it’s a lot of stanzas. Or it will be for University of Houston English professor
UT’s writing program achieves Texas-size success.
George W. Bush’s plan to teach every child how to read by the third grade is unquestionably the right thing to do. So how come he’s gotten such mixed reviews? (“We’ve had a hard time,” admits a Bush staffer.) The answer, like much of politics these days, is in the
The University of Texas at Austin, whose paralysis in response to the Hopwood decision ignited racial tensions. And that was before Lino Graglia said a word.
What does the school board scandal say about Dallas?
A suburban mom’s patience is tested by drug testing.
By chain-sawing three acres of its research vineyard near Fort Stockton, the University of Texas System uncorked quite a controversy.
Is the most outspoken member of the State Board of Education a selfless public servant or simply a prima Donna?
Until recently, I couldn’t. Then I enrolled in language school in the charming Mexican town of Guanajuato, and two weeks later I was comfortably conversant in español.
Governed by generosity.
What in the world can make learning fun? Would you believe—the National Geographic Society? When the staid Washington, D.C., institution wanted to turn the database of questions from its National Geography Bee into a computer game that would appeal to parents and kids alike, it turned to Austin’s Human Code,
Aggies: Gig ’em or dig ’em? Plus: Bringing up babies.
A massive buildup for Texas Tech University’s Vietnam archive.
They overcame politics, poverty, isolation, and Old Aggies to make Texas A&M the state’s academic powerhouse.
Two former high-level administrators at Texas A&M may have acted unethically—but that doesn’t make them criminals.
Mexico’s recent political unrest is the subject of a new CD-ROM from the University of Texas at Austin’s Advanced Communications Technology Laboratory, or ACTlab. The Revolution Will Be Digitized uses video, animation, art, and music to dress up an academic analysis of the Zapatista rebel movement. Due out this spring,
Today students at Southwestern Medical School in Dallas are expected to master more hard-core science than ever before. Yet after graduation, they’ll have to keep studying, and be counselors and business experts too. A hard look at the way we teach our doctors—and why it has had to change.
IN NOVEMBER WE PUBLISHED A RANKING of 3,172 public grade schools in Texas, giving each school one of five grades, from four stars (the best) to no stars (the worst). This article provoked an unusual amount of mail. Some of the letters were barely restrained victory whoops from people connected
At a school whose children come from some of the poorest communities on the border, the way to excellence begins with sheer will and a culture of success.
Facing the obstacles of an inner-city Beaumont neighborhood, a committed, innovative principal and her demanding staff expect the best and accept no excuses.
With a private-school atmosphere, involved parents, and a veteran principal and faculty, this Richardson school makes the most of its many blessings.
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A report card on more than three thousand public elementary schools from Abernathy to Zavalla. Does yours make the grade? Plus: How Richardson’s Brentfield, Beaumont’s Pietzsch, and Mission’s Carl C. Waitz got to the head of the class.
Why good schools have clean bathrooms and principals who don’t wear high heels.
Wealthy school districts think they’ve found a way to shield millions of dollars from the state’s Robin Hood law. Are they about to get malled?
It was strange enough that I returned to my hated Houston high school after twenty years—but stranger still, I enjoyed it.
Sins of admission.
Head of the class.
Will UT get affirmative action on affirmative action? Plus: A runoff rundown.
If you can’t get enough of creepy character actor Christopher Walken, boot up The Darkening, one of this year’s CD-ROM releases from Austin’s Origin Systems. Walken, like John Hurt and Amanda Pays, plays one of the fifty characters who meet up with the game’s hero, an amnesiac who roams the
Why are so many students in Texas unable to read? The answer is obvious: because the school system has failed them.