Best Thing in Texas
December 12, 2022
The Best Things in Texas 2023: The Most Inspiring Educator In the Country
Barbara Yarbrough has taught and volunteered in Midland since segregation—and has won national recognition at age 87.
Teachers
Texas Country Reporter
July 13, 2022
Hankering for a Sweet Story? Look No Farther Than a High School in Beaumont
Two special-education teachers at West Brook Senior High launched a school-wide cookie-baking program that brings together students of all kinds.
News & Politics
March 17, 2022
Seven Texas Teachers on the State of Education: “I’m Tired of Getting Punched.”
After two years of hell, Texas teachers are burned-out, angry, tired—and sounding the alarm about public education.
News & Politics
June 22, 2021
Inside the New Luxury Campus for Texas Education Leaders
Charles Butt’s Holdsworth Center offers leadership training—and much-needed respect—for superintendents, principals, and teachers at Texas public schools.
News & Politics
June 3, 2021
This Was a Horrible Way to Do School. But It Had Its Moments.
As the academic year ends, a rookie teacher looks back at his struggle to keep himself and his students afloat with nothing but a Zoom connection between them.
News & Politics
July 17, 2020
I’ve Spent Years Protecting My Students. When Classes Resume, Who Will Protect Me?
As Texas schools look to reopen this fall, I am unsure how to keep myself and the children I look after safe.
The Daily Post
October 6, 2016
A Teacher In Grand Prairie Has Been Placed on Adminstrative Leave After Telling His Students To Google Him
There were news reports online that he had once been arrested for allegedly threatening that he was "capable of doing things along the line of what" happened in Newtown, Connecticut.
The Daily Post
November 17, 2014
A Houston Third Grade Teacher Is in Trouble For Making Racial Slurs on a Public Access Show
Not long after a Duncanville teacher was fired for tweeting "kill yourselves" to "crackers" who wanted to argue with her opinions about Ferguson, another teacher, this time in Houston, is under fire for using racially-charged language.
Politics & Policy
February 28, 2013
Gun Safety Course Proves Painfully Unsafe
A school employee was accidentally shot yesterday during one of Van ISD's gun safety courses.
January 21, 2013
Six Sex Scandals Involving Texas Teachers
The story of Kennedale High School teacher Brittni Colleps, found guilty last week of having sex with four male students while being videotaped, and five other teachers accused of sleeping with their students.
Bum Steers
January 20, 2013
’Rithmetic
The Bum Steers Math Quiz.
News & Politics
January 20, 2013
Why Teachers Can’t Teach
Our system of training teachers is a crime that robs taxpayers of millions of dollars, robs potential teachers of competence and self-respect, and robs our kids of a decent education.
News & Politics
January 20, 2013
The Non-Conformist
Meet one very talented teacher, who, since he hadn’t ingested the required amount of educational gobbledygook, lost his job.
News & Politics
January 20, 2013
The Test Teachers Can’t Pass
Last year half of Dallas’ new teachers failed a standard test on general knowledge that was a piece of cake compared to what we once expected teachers to know.
May 16, 2012
Teacher Says She’s Married to God, School Says She Can’t Return to Teaching This Year
A public high school teacher from the Valley will not be returning to the classroom this school year after she told her ninth graders that she is "married to God."
April 11, 2012
Gender Division Doesn’t Add Up
A new study from UT Austin researchers finds math teachers are seeing more than just the numbers when they evaluate students' competence.
Texas Primer
March 1, 2001
The New London School Explosion
How many people died in the New London school explosion of 1937?
News & Politics
November 1, 1994
The Seduction of Jane Doe
When a teacher romances a student, are school officials to blame? That’s the crux of a case that began in the small town of Taylor and ended up in the U.S. Supreme court.
News & Politics
November 1, 1992
Drugged Out
After seven years, teaching kindergarten in a community devastated by drug addiction became more than I could bear. Still, my decision to leave was fraught with mixed emotions.
News & Politics
September 1, 1988
Do I Make a Difference?
A kindergarten teacher tells what she learned in school.
News & Politics
August 31, 1977
I Was a Spy in the Second Grade
I escaped once, but they sent me back.