Elementary Education

Beyond the Stink Over Shirley Ison-Newsome's Departure, Remembering the Good She Did at DISD

OK, I guess we're all going to pile on departing Dallas school executive Shirley Ison-Newsome, a person accused of serial scandals and of making off with a bunch of loot in the form of a "golden parachute." Look, Unfair Park Czar Eric Nicholson was quite right to observe a week ago that there were a ... More >>

Chicago's Teacher Quality Debate? Texas Republicans Built That. Thank God.

The New York Times this morning has a piece arguing that the Chicago teachers strike is a window on the nation's heart over the last few years, where education is concerned. I would say it's been 15 years at least, and in a weird way a lot of it started right here in Dallas. In the mid-'90s Dallas ... More >>

Sadness, Loss as Bonham Elementary School Prepares for Consolidation

Today is the last Friday of the school year for Dallas ISD schools. For 11 schools in the city slated for consolidation after a school board vote, like the 89-year-old James B. Bonham Elementary, this Friday holds even more significance. Next week, after the students leave, the teachers will pack al ... More >>

Tom Field Principal Ousted Here, Then in D.C., Tells Washington Post She Did Nothing Wrong

​In November The News broke the news that Roslyn Carter, the principal at Tom Field Elementary, took teaching to the test a little too far -- at least, according to Dallas Independent School District investigators. Acting on anonymous tips, the district says it discovered that Carter told her thir ... 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 >>

Heart of the Matter

Juarez's Children: Drugs, Death and Fear.

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

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 >>

Too Much Monkey Business

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

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

Split Decision

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

Re: Getting Polled

Art School So Not Confidential

Edumacated

Get smart at Borders

Re: Hollow News

Re: Hollow News

Hollow News

Kudos, Teach!

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

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

Buzz

Busted

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?

Artless

Fort Worth schoolchildren get a lesson in censorship

Stop the madness

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

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.

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

Some Fly, Some Die

How DISD betrays children of color

Little boy blues

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

Too Smart For Their Own Good

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

The price of privilege

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

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.

Held back by love

A special-education student will remain with her friends