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.
Barbara Yarbrough has taught and volunteered in Midland since segregation—and has won national recognition at age 87.
Two special-education teachers at West Brook Senior High launched a school-wide cookie-baking program that brings together students of all kinds.
After two years of hell, Texas teachers are burned-out, angry, tired—and sounding the alarm about public education.
Charles Butt’s Holdsworth Center offers leadership training—and much-needed respect—for superintendents, principals, and teachers at Texas public schools.
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.
As Texas schools look to reopen this fall, I am unsure how to keep myself and the children I look after safe.
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.
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.
A school employee was accidentally shot yesterday during one of Van ISD's gun safety courses.
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.
The Bum Steers Math Quiz.
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.
Meet one very talented teacher, who, since he hadn’t ingested the required amount of educational gobbledygook, lost his job.
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.
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."
A new study from UT Austin researchers finds math teachers are seeing more than just the numbers when they evaluate students' competence.
How many people died in the New London school explosion of 1937?
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.
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.
A kindergarten teacher tells what she learned in school.
I escaped once, but they sent me back.