Vol 1, Issue 8

State legislatures are scrambling to renounce Common Core standards as a grassroots movement builds against them. But their most vocal and earliest opponent was Texas.

Texas Education Commissioner Michael Williams has effectively overruled a vote by the State Board of Education to deny an Arizona-based charter school's expansion into the Dallas area.

Almost 20 percent of rising high school seniors in Texas are at risk of not earning their diplomas on time because they haven't passed one or more of five required exams. 

In this week's Q&A, we interview María Robledo Montecel, president and CEO of IDRA in San Antonio.

In this week's Bookshelf, our content partner Kirkus Reviews highlights Do Fathers Matter?

With an influx of unaccompanied child migrants crossing the border between the U.S. and Mexico, schools across the country are preparing to make room for the new arrivals.

During a UT-Austin speech, Marco Davis of the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics urged young Texas men of color to become agents of change in their communities.

A year after it was listed as one of the 6.5 percent of Texas districts that failed to meet STAAR standards, 2014 test results for Victoria Independent School District indicate advancement. 

A year after a controversial move to provide students at 47 schools with iPads, the Los Angeles Unified School District has broadened its approach to digital learning devices.

A Bay Area educator who founded the Ever Forward Club for Boys contends that fostering emotional maturity in boys will help them improve academic performance and dropout rates.

With U.S. students consistently scoring lower in math, science, and reading than other industrial countries, a UT-Austin professor argues that the contributing factor is a pervasive disrespect for learning in general.