David Dewhurst’s committee assignments late Friday spotlighted the challenge this session presents for Florence Shapiro, whose interest in running for the U.S. Senate places her in perilous territory vis-a-vis the Texas Senate’s presiding officer, who likewise is considering a relocation to Washington. While Dewhurst’s committee assignments shifted authority from Shapiro
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December 1, 2008
The reason so many Texans testified in favor of strong language supporting evolution in the TEKS is because they’re having to play defense and they’re losing.
For the 140 full-time, residential students lucky enough to be enrolled there, the Texas School for the Blind is “heaven,” “home,” and “the first place I had friends.”
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April 30, 2008
“If someone can show me a way that we’re going to attend to the needs of kids without finding out where they are, without diagnosing the problem, I’m all ears. But it’s not possible.”
Texas Monthly Talks|
February 1, 2008
Diana Natalicio on the future of higher ed in El Paso.
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February 1, 2008
Green buildings, awesome movie theaters, and high-speed semiconductors won’t be worth much if we fail to educate our kids, more and more of whom can’t speak English when they enter the school system. Good thing this California native, who was picked by the League of United Latin American Citizens as
What Samir Patel learned in five years of not winning the national spelling bee (other than the root words of “eremacausis”).
Warren was born and raised in New York but has lived in Houston for more than twenty years. She is an eleventh-grade U.S. history teacher at Hastings High School, in the Alief Independent School District, which serves one of the state’s most ethnically diverse student populations. More than sixty languages
The Texas Education Agency flunks out.
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July 31, 2007
Texas Southern University’s missed opportunity.
Each year, some 55,000 talented high school musicians try out for 1,500 chairs at the Super Bowl of band geekery: the Texas Music Educators Association Clinic/Convention in San Antonio. Once upon a time, I made the cut.
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December 1, 2006
A ranking of 574 elementary, middle, and high schools that really make the grade.
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November 1, 2006
At the Giddings State School, violent teenagers come to terms with their horrific crimes—and learn how to avoid committing them again—through role-playing exercises in a jailhouse version of group therapy. This is what your tax dollars are paying for? Well, it works. For a while, at least.
In four years as president of Texas A&M University, former CIA director Robert M. Gates—who knows a thing or two about leading a strong, hidebound, misunderstood culture—has left few areas of campus life untouched. But putting sushi in the dining halls is nothing compared with overhauling the Aggie brand.
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September 30, 2006
A tip of the hat to risk-taking, barrier-breaking, establishment-tweaking Texans.
When parents at St. Andrew’s Episcopal School, in Austin—where the Capital City’s moneyed elite have educated their kids for more than fifty years—rebelled against the teaching of ‘Brokeback Mountain,’ it was, you might say, a learning experience for everyone involved.
Does incentive pay for teachers make the grade?
At Westlake, even if your parents wouldn’t spring for Ralph Lauren, you could still work your way into the in crowd.
State of the Art|
August 31, 2005
Where high school football memories are made.
What happened—and didn’t—when we “fixed” school finance the last time.
Patricia Kilday Hart|
February 1, 2005
Who thinks tuition deregulation stinks? Middle-class kids—and me.
A read on textbooks.
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September 30, 2004
Of course I want to help my son get a decent education. But the demands placed on parents these days are almost too much to bearwhich is why I'm in danger of flunking my life.
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June 30, 2004
Garza High School principal Vicki Baldwin talks about the daily assault on public education, President George W. Bush's No Child Left Behind policy, and what a non- traditional school like Garza has to offer kids.
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June 30, 2004
Austin's Garza High is a rescuer of lost souls. Too bad President Bush's education-reform law considers it a failure.
Jan Jarboe Russell|
May 31, 2004
A Harvard know-it-all predicts that the emerging Hispanic majority will be a drag on America. Tell it to your friends in Cambridge, bub.
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April 30, 2004
Senior executive editor Paul Burka, who wrote this month's cover story, "Corps Values," talks about diversity at A&M, the future of the Corps of Cadets, and Aggie traditions.
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April 30, 2004
Photographer Peter Yang on getting Aggies to pose for their portrait and what makes a good picture.
What place does tradition have at Texas A&M these days? One by one, the old ways are disappearing from the venerable campus, and many Aggies are up in arms. But embracing change may be the only way to save the school they love.
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January 1, 2004
Senior editor Pamela Colloff talks about the typical A&M student, chivalry, and Aggie spirit.
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September 30, 2003
It took a while, but I finally found my niche at the University of Texas at Austin.
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September 30, 2003
Senior executive editor Paul Burka talks about this month's cover story, "Greatness Visible."
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September 30, 2003
I was looking for a change when I decided to move to Austin and attend the University of Texas. Until I got there, I had no idea how big the change would be.
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September 30, 2003
Can one man change the world's largest Baptist university? He can if he's controversial preacher-president Robert Sloan, Jr. And, just maybe, one man can destroy it too.
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September 30, 2003
The dream of a first-rate university rising out of the prairie north of the Colorado River is almost as old as Texas itself. Which prompts the question, When will UT finally live up to its potential?
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February 1, 2003
Juliet Garcia, president of The University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College, talks with us about her life and roots in South Texas.
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November 1, 2002
Bill Wittliff and Edwin "Bud" Shrake, the recipients of the 2002 Texas Book Festival Bookend award, embody Texas literature today.
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November 1, 2002
From elementary school to high school, we've got more than five thousand public schools ranked. See if your kid's school is making the grade.
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November 1, 2002
texasmonthly.com: You are featured in Dorothy McConachie’s book, Top Texas Teachers. How were you chosen?Carolina Carner: They picked 35 teachers from across the state. One of my students nominated me at Barnes and Noble in Round Rock. McConachie got thousands of entries, and I was picked out of all of
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November 1, 2002
An Austin group brings theater into schools.
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November 1, 2002
In the new book, Top Texas Teachers, author Dorothy McConachie gives 35 educators top honors.
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November 1, 2002
These are the best of the best—the top ten high schools in each of four economic categories, as ranked by the National Center for Educational Accountability. For the full list of more than one thousand public high schools in Texas, see page 170 (in the print copy).HIGHEST ECONOMIC GROUPCollege Station/A&M
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November 1, 2002
DISTRICT/SCHOOL| STARS | % LOW INCOME | ALGEBRA PASSING RATEPewitt/Pewitt | 5 | 50.4 | 95.0Ysleta/Del Valle | 5 | 89.4 | 78.6Hidalgo/Hidalgo | 5 | 96.9 | 62.1San Antonio/Highlands | 5 | 89.0 | 57.2San Antonio/Jefferson | 5 | 90.6 | 57.1_________________________________________Humble/Quest | 1 | 9.4 | 26.9Holliday/Holliday |
Find out in our updated, expanded, and still exclusive ranking of nearly every public high school in Texas.
Find out in our rankings of nearly every public elementary, middle, and high school in Texas–the most comprehensive and accurate ever done in the state.
Behind the Lines|
April 30, 2001
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.
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September 30, 1999
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.