Investing in Homeless Young Texans
Photo: Bionic Teaching Texas’ 85th legislative session kicked off last month. Lawmakers now have...
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Category: Education Policy
20-Minute Interviews in Ghana
Second in a series by Isabel Hovey (LBJ MGPS Student) covering her internship at Exponential...
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Evaluating Girls Educational Programs in Ghana
First in a series by Isabel Hovey (LBJ MGPS Student) covering her internship at Exponential...
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The Elephant in the Room
The 2014 Tribune Festival’s coverage of issues related to higher education in Texas began with a...
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Interview with Silviana Brunele: SESI, SENAI and Conexão Mundo
Silviana Brunele, the director of elementary and high school education at SESI and SENAI Linhares,...
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Short-Term Win for Powers Means Long-Term Concern for UT
Yesterday, University of Texas at Austin President Bill Powers announced that at the end of the...
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Building Economic Ties between the United States and Brazil through Education
At the crack of dawn tomorrow morning, I will board a train travelling 12 hours from Belo...
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Diversity at the Civil Rights Summit
April 8-10, 2014 marked some of the best and most important days in my time as a student at the...
Read MoreDon’t Price Students Out of an Education
President Lyndon Johnson said, “Poverty must not be a bar to learning, and learning must offer an escape from poverty.” As students at the LBJ School of Public Affairs, President Johnson’s commitment to...
Read MoreInvest in Texas’ Future
When Ross Perot embarked on his crusade to fix the Texas education system in the 1980s, he said the state’s schools excelled in only three areas: drill...
Read MoreSchool Accountability: Reform or Retreat?
Last week, the Statesman delivered good news for Texas: STAAR passing rates jumped after a recent round of retakes. This is a big win not only for Texas schoolchildren and teachers, but also for state policy. The...
Read MoreNo Easy Answers in Education Policy Reform
This summer I worked for the non-profit organization The New Teacher Project (TNTP), which is in the middle of a five-year contract with the Houston Independent School District to reform the human capital system of HISD. The...
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