Elementary Education

Kickin' it Old School

Re: Getting Polled

Art School So Not Confidential

Re: Hollow News

Re: Hollow News

Hollow News

Artless

Fort Worth schoolchildren get a lesson in censorship

Held back by love

A special-education student will remain with her friends

The Learning Curve

Earnest eggheads came to Texas with an idea that for-profit schools can save public education. So far, it ain't working.

The price of privilege

Highland Park ISD's expansion plans target the homes of the district's less affluent residents

Too Smart For Their Own Good

"Jones' Geniuses" can calculate difficult math problems in their heads. But DISD hasn't always liked the answers.

Little boy blues

Andrew Baxter Jr. may be a mere child, but the 11-year-old guitarist is no novelty

Some Fly, Some Die

How DISD betrays children of color

Letters

How DISD betrays children of color

Math wars

Plano parents lay siege to enthusiasts of the "New New Math" in a fight over how to fix the sorry state of math instruction in the public schools

No place like home

Thousands of Texans say they can do a better job teaching their children at home. But some local truant officers claim parents are using a massive loophole in Texas law to skip school altogether.

Buzz

Busted

Speaking Of Candidates

The Presidents make a stop in Dallas

DISD In the Hole

Teachers get axed and parents fret as Dallas' school leaders scramble to cover a budget hole

Kids Go Holistic at Robert Muller Center

Wait, you can teach kids without boring them? Since when?

Chaos Amid Dallas Parochial League

A popular coach is pushed out of the Catholic sports league

Just Fudge It

The DCT Blumes right onstage

Kudos, Teach!

The DCT Blumes right onstage

Edumacated

Get smart at Borders

Rhymes With Puck Off | While We're at It... | Die, White Liberals, Die | Blood and Guts

Get smart at Borders

All the Right Moves

Save the bump and grind for strippers. Let's do some dancing.

Split Decision

A judge says Preston Hollow Elementary segregated white kids to please parents. The reality is deeper and maybe more troubling.

Alone No More

Forgiving the past opened Sandora Irvin's future

Great Clips

Tennessee schoolkids teach the world a lesson in an inspirational documentary

Best Use of a Bond Issue

Irma Rangel Young Women's Leadership School

Unbuttoned-Down Muse

Plus: Girls Wanted; The Eyes Have It; We Win

Letters

Plus: Girls Wanted; The Eyes Have It; We Win

Crossing Division Street

How do white people learn what to think about race? It's best not to think about it.

"Today, a Generation Died."

Revisiting the story of the 1937 New London gas explosion--the worst tragedy involving schoolchildren in American history

Separate and Unequal

In a school district that still sees the city in terms of black and white, Hispanics say their children are robbed of a fair share

For God and Country

For a South Oak Cliff church considered a model for mixing faith and government, the line between church and state is thin indeeda

Little Schools That Could

Call off the air strike on DISD headquarters--there's some good stuff going on in the district

Out of Their League

Want to have some fun playing soccer? Stay out of Plano, kid.

Public defenders

A surprising number of parents are shunning the 'burbs, pulling their kids out of private schools, and embracing DISD

Brown-out

The problems at Silberstein Elementary--too few bilingual teachers, a PTA divided, tensions between black administrators and Hispanic parents--are a microcosm of the issues DISD faces districtwide

Planting SEEDs of hope

An innovative math program recalculates which students will succeed and which will fail at DISD

Why Johnny's in the dumpster

DISD would rather protect itself and teachers than teach kids to read

No class

New York-based Edison Schools flunked out with trying to privatize Sherman's public schools. Why should things be any different in Dallas?

Stop the madness

Ponder officials jail second student; first-grader's report on Where the Wild Things Are deemed too violent

Too Much Monkey Business

Ponder officials jail second student; first-grader's report on Where the Wild Things Are deemed too violent

Reasons No. 487 and 826 Why Parents Don't Send Their Children to Dallas Public Schools

Kyle Renard​On Monday I moderated a District 1 school board candidates debate, and long story short, all four contenders were thoughtful, well-reasoned and dead-level; even 79-year-old long-shot Melvin Cannon's call for more vocational education was greeted with a few nods of approval. Most of the ... More >>

On L.A.'s Skid Row, a generational war over how to teach the American children of illegal immigrants

Kyle Renard​On Monday I moderated a District 1 school board candidates debate, and long story short, all four contenders were thoughtful, well-reasoned and dead-level; even 79-year-old long-shot Melvin Cannon's call for more vocational education was greeted with a few nods of approval. Most of the ... More >>

Juarez's Children: Drugs, Death and Fear.

Kyle Renard​On Monday I moderated a District 1 school board candidates debate, and long story short, all four contenders were thoughtful, well-reasoned and dead-level; even 79-year-old long-shot Melvin Cannon's call for more vocational education was greeted with a few nods of approval. Most of the ... More >>

Heart of the Matter

Kyle Renard​On Monday I moderated a District 1 school board candidates debate, and long story short, all four contenders were thoughtful, well-reasoned and dead-level; even 79-year-old long-shot Melvin Cannon's call for more vocational education was greeted with a few nods of approval. Most of the ... More >>

Seven-Plus Years After It Opened, Nasher Sculpture Center Celebrates One Millionth Visitor

Jesse SidlauskasFourth grade teacher Cheri Flynn is congratulated for being the Nasher's millionth visitor, as the student in line ahead of her -- possibly the actual millionth visitor -- looks on.​From the day the Nasher Sculpture Center first opened its doors in October 2003, until 11 a.m. this ... More >>