In recent years, when conservative activists have tried to slip creationism into science textbooks adopted by Texas’ State Board of Education, they have dressed it up as “intelligent design,” or explained the need to teach the “weaknesses” of the theory of evolution. A Trojan horse, perhaps, and one that’s been…
Prime Prep Academy, the charter school that Deion Sanders co-founded last year and was fired from last week, is known for its suspicious tendency to attract some of the top high school athletes in the country. Now, the parents of those athletes say they were misled by school officials and…
As evangelicals continue to revel in their victory over the Christmas-hating PTA moms in Frisco, the folks at the American Humanist Association are proving that they don’t need God on their side to force a North Texas school district to capitulate. AHA announced today that Isaiah Smith, the Birdville High…
Texas is one of a handful of states that hasn’t adopted the coming Common Core curriculum standards, but former State Board of Education member Cynthia Dunbar nonetheless believes that the creep of “socialized education” is apparent in a new environmental science text. In an innuendo-heavy segment that could be debunked…
The creationists didn’t win Friday when the State Board of Education took up new biology textbooks in an ideologically fraught, historically contentious adoption process. Most of the materials sailed through. But they didn’t exactly lose, either. Biology, one of the top two or three most widely used textbooks in the…
In last year’s cover story on Deion Sanders’ Prime Prep Academy, we described D.L. Wallace as little more than a snake-oil salesman. Last month, just before Sanders was briefly fired, he called his business partner a “snake.” Whatever the preferred moniker, the Prime Prep co-founder and CEO is gone. He…
It wasn’t that long ago that Frisco’s embrace of Christ’s birth was so suffocatingly full-bodied that the Washington Post’s Hank Stuever embedded himself there for three holiday seasons for Tinsel, his book exploring the gaudy excess of the modern American Christmas celebration. How quickly things change. This year, just five…
The State Board of Education doesn’t vote on new high-school biology textbooks until Friday, but the Discovery Institute — an avowed foe of teaching evolution in public schools — is bracing for the worst. Dr. Stephen C. Meyer, an institute board member, tells Evolution News and Views that the proposed…
Preston Hollow Elementary is losing the battle to woo the middle- and upper-class families who live nearby. It’s not unique in this regard. Sanger Elementary, you’ll recall, was spurned by the coveted high-level-city-bureaucrat demographic, and other grade schools in Dallas’ well-heeled ‘hoods draw largely from poorer neighborhoods, while the local…
Every year, thousands of Texas high school graduates continue their educations at community colleges, but only a fraction –16.2 percent according to a recent study — will ever go on to complete a four-year degree. A number of factors contribute to such an abysmal college completion rate, most of which…
Just before 9 a.m. on Tuesday, 16-year-old Jerry Nguyen stepped out of a friend’s Volkswagen Beetle in front of Bryan Adams High school to wait for his bus. He was struck and killed a few moments later as the car was executing a U-turn. Nguyen studied science and engineering at…
Justin Lookadoo can’t figure out what all the fuss is about. He showed up at Richardson High School yesterday to give the same motivational speech he’s given to students thousands of times only to have his name desecrated on Twitter and be pilloried by the media. His presentation, he told…
Around 1 p.m. today, the hashtag #lookadouche showed up on the Twittersphere. A group of students at Richardson High School were skipping regularly scheduled math or science classes to attend an optional PTA-sponsored assembly. The day’s guest speaker was a motivational speaker who has co-authored faith-based dating books, Dateable: are…
A student en route to Dallas ISD’s Townview Magnet died this morning after being struck by a car. The incident happened at East Dallas’ Bryan Adams High School. According to news reports, the teen was dropped off by a woman just before 9 a.m. to wait for the bus. The…
It’s a touchy subject, booze and rape on college campuses. Emily Yoffe, Slate’s advice columnist, caught hell last month for suggesting that parents and universities need to do a better job warning students of the connection between binge drinking and sexual assault. Yoffe offered a measured argument that is backed…
Isaiah Smith isn’t one to lay down in the face of injustice. When the Birdville High School student, who is gay, learned via a TV show that restaurants can legally refuse to serve gay people, he petitioned the Keller City Council to ban LGBT discrimination. When he decided that the…
Former state Representative Allen Vaught doesn’t want to create a White Rock ISD, per se. He just thinks Dallas ISD is too big, too unwieldy to function effectively. The Whiterock ISD Facebook page he put up on Saturday was a way of “planting a flag where people can rally to…
Mr. Martinez knew it was coming, was bracing for it, was already crafting how he might respond in the office and the halls and the parking lot at morning drop-off. Still, when it hit on Sunday, it had to hurt. Martinez — first name Hector, not that it gets used…
The Ford name is on the SMU football stadium, so maybe the motor company named its sports car after the mascot.
Ridicule Baylor University all you want. Mock the school for its 19th century social mores, for waiting until 1996 lift its dancing ban, for its campus-wide ban on alcohol, for being “guided by the understanding that basing “human sexuality is a gift from the creator God.” Go for it. Just…
The Aledo High School Bearcats didn’t want to score 91 points over Fort Worth Western Hills on Friday night, nor did they intend to hold their opponent completely scoreless. When the team glanced at the scoreboard as time expired and discovered they’d done both those things, the pangs of remorse…
KIPP Destiny Elementary opened with little fanfare this August in a converted Mervyn’s storefront across from Southwest Center Mall in Red Bird. The national charter school network, which already operates the KIPP Truth Academy middle school a few miles away, is saving that for Wednesday. That’s when tennis great Andre…
