High School Education

Silenced Joshua ISD Valedictorian Speaks Out, With an Assist from Plano's Liberty Institute

The debate over Joshua ISD's decision last week to cut the mic on valedictorian Remington Reimer's graduation speech probably should have died by now. The oft-repeated claim that he was silenced for talking about God is belied by, among other things, the lengthy, overtly Christian prayer that closed ... More >>

35 DISD Students Who Overcame Adversity will Get Free Tickets to Tonight's Kendrick Lamar Concert

Though pre-millennial generations may not always connect the dots between hip-hop and academics, things have come a long way since Biggie Smalls' crack rock & jump shot career options mentality of the mid-nineties. Now that rap has grown into a global, billion dollar industry, the culture has made m ... More >>

Joshua ISD Cut its Valedictorian's Mic Last Night, But Maybe Not for Talking About God

Remington Reimer's classmates at Joshua High School called him "Spock" -- less, it seems, due to any lack of human emotion than because he's whip-smart. The Cleburne Times-Review referred to him recently as the "most gifted, academically excellent student that Joshua High School has ever produced," ... More >>

Dallas High School Students Could Graduate in Three Years Under Proposed Plan

For some Dallas ISD students, the senior year of high school is immensely valuable. There are mountains of college credits that can be accumulated free of charged through AP, IB, and dual-credit courses, and the mechanically inclined can enroll in vocational programs like Skyline's aeronautics clust ... More >>

How to Get Non-readers to Read

A teacher gives her love to the Mexican.

DaVerse-ify Your Vocabulary

DART's Fares are Going Up

After a veritable avalanche of public comments on Twitter and in 18 town hall meetings, DART's board of directors voted yesterday to hike -- er, "streamline" -- its fares. The changes go into effect on December 3. The cost of a local ride jumps up from $1.75 to $2.50, with a corresponding hike in t ... More >>

On DART, Teens and Seniors Will Get a Break on Fare Hike While Everyone Else Pays Up

A while back, DART announced it was considering fare changes that will, assuming they are adopted, will go into effect on December 3. The proposal would do several things. It would streamline the fare structure and introduce variable pricing for peak- and non-peak hours, but for most riders, it wil ... More >>

No Matter How You Add It Up, Dallas ISD's Magnets Still Top Best High Schools Lists

Again, the Yvonne A. Ewell Townview Magnet Center houses some of the best individual high schools in the U.S.​Exactly one month ago we got a look at longtime Washington Post education columnist Jay Mathews' list of the best public high schools in the country -- the same list that used to run in Ne ... More >>

FAIR-y Tales

Russell Pearce and Other Illegal-Immigration Populists Rely on Misleading, Right-Wing Reports to Scapegoat Immigrants and Terrify Penny-Pinched Americans.

Online Courses, DISD's "Vision for the Future"

​Speaking of the Dallas Independent School District ...This morning, The New York Times -- or, more to the point, The Times via its new-found relationship with the Texas Tribune and, in this instance, a partnership with the Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media at Columbia University -- l ... More >>

University of Texas at Austin to Help "Underserved" DISD High School Students

​The University of Texas at Austin sends word today that it's partnering with Dallas-based Education is Freedom -- the beneficiary of Mayor Tom's fund-raiser at the Dallas Zoo on June 26 -- on a pilot program intended to "support students who might not otherwise consider the university as an optio ... More >>

How Can Immigrant Students Score Fake Residency Papers?

Before It's Official, DISD Releases Preliminary List of Exemplary, Recognized Schools

​We said it just last week: The Texas Education Agency won't release its 2010 Accountability Ratings till the end of July, which hasn't stopped the Dallas Independent School District from spreading the good news concerning a fifth straight year of improved TAKS scores and additional schools being ... More >>

Dallas ISD's Long and Winding Road to Broad Prize Just Hit a Dead End

​Perhaps you've seen the promotional materials -- they've been everywhere during the past five years, as the Dallas Independent School District (and superintendent Michael Hinojosa, especially) eased on down that Road to Broad, so named for the $2 million award given to urban school districts who ... More >>

DISD's Ranger on Graduation Rates and "The Disintegration of The Family Structure"

DISD trustee Carla Ranger​As we mentioned Monday, the Dallas Independent School District board of trustees will discuss at tomorrow's meeting its contingency plans for Kimball, Roosevelt, Pinkston and Seagoville high schools should the Texas Education Agency deem them academically unacceptable for ... More >>

"No Shirt, No Shoes...No Dice!"

Teacher-Turned-Author Questions How Dallas Landed Two Schools at Top of Newsweek List

Newsweek has yet again released its list of the top 1,500 public high schools in the U.S. -- and Dallas, with six on the list, has dropped one from the '08 scorecard: poor ol' Hillcrest High School, which last year came in at No. 547, dang. The School for the Talented and Gifted at Yvonne A. Ewell T ... More >>

Magnetic Subtraction | Classic Schlock

Hey DISD Trustees! Do the Math on Magnet Schools.

Magnets just aren’t the budget-busters trustees are pretending they are.

Wherein the DO and the DISD Have a Math-Off Concerning Per-Pupil Expenditures

On Tuesday of this week Dallas Independent School District spokesman Jon Dahlander responded to questions I had asked him last week for my column this week about per-pupil expenditures at high school campuses. Unfortunately, his response by e-mail reached me several days after my deadline had passed ... More >>

Don't Mess With The Bull, Young Man. You'll Get The Flyleaf.

If, say, you are a high schooler in Burleson--and that's clearly our target demographic here on DC9, I think--and you're about to, say, bring a flare gun to school and get yourself slapped with a Saturday detention, may I suggest you do so on the week of April 27?'Cause, on Saturday, May 2, Belton/ ... More >>

Classrooms, Minus Some Students

Great, Taylor Publishing. Like Students Need Help Teasing Classmates.

The Chicks'll Scream

Get Greased at the Inwood

Go, Longhorns! (W.T. White Longhorns, That Is.)

Hey, Kids, George Michael and Kenny Goss Are Being Very Generous

French Lessons (From Mrs. Bill Gates)

Ever Snort Coke at An "After-Prom Party"? You Might Be a Dallas Cop Yet.

You Are Such a Prom Queen

Dallas' Top-Ranked High Schools Not as High on U.S. News' New List

Higher Learning

For the Bible -- and State Legislature? -- Tells Us So

It's Soooo High School

And that's a compliment to Rian Johnson's teen detective noir

Junior Varsity

Student playwrights show their skills

From the Highland Park Teen Affairs Desk

Think Tha New Law About Hispanics is Stupid?

Brad Who?

Pitt gets punched out at Lakewood Theater

Metric

Live It Out (Last Gang)

Jimmy Eat World

Futures (Interscope)

Rock and Roll High School

An honest critic is your best friend, and other lessons from a teenage Battle of the Bands

Letters

Reverend Fix-It

Itinerant minister Charles Wilkerson promised to restore two ailing Christian schools to financial health. So why did the patients take a turn for the worse?

Best Billiards

Cuckoo's Nest

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

Letters to the Editor

Man with the Plan DISD's New Math

Public defenders

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

The kids aren't all right

The Americanized culture of undocumented immigrants finds the doors to higher education closed

Lost and found

Poor, brown, and inner-city. These Adamson High School kids weren't supposed to make it. They did anyway.

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