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  Dallas Schools Doing OK, No 10 Plagues of Egypt, Trustee Claims

  November 14 at 4 a.m.

  We must knock wood and throw salt over our shoulders. Don’t say anything to mess it up. But the Dallas public school system, already an unheralded center of innovation, may also be emerging as an unheralded beacon of stability. And the unheralded part — no New York Times stories, no 60 Minutes...

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  UNT Attorney Resigns After Using N-Word During Campus Panel Discussion

  November 8 at 10:39 a.m.

  University of North Texas officials are condemning a university system attorney's use of a racial slur during a campus forum on First Amendment protections Thursday evening. Caitlin Sewell, assistant general council for the UNT System, used the word as an example of protected speech during a panel discussion titled "When...

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  Baylor Professor Apologizes After Speaker Promotes Conversion Therapy in Class

  November 8 at 4 a.m.

  A Baylor University professor is apologizing to students this week after a guest speaker in his class promoted conversion therapy during his presentation. During a Tuesday session of professor Lewis Lummer's American Sign Language III class, the Rev. Jari Saavalainen, pastor of a deaf church near Chicago, gave a guest...

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  After Getting Failing Marks, Thomas Jefferson High School Is a Success. Will a Tornado Change That?

  November 6 at 4 a.m.

  On the first day back in class after a tornado tore through North Dallas and left her school in shambles, the list of things algebra teacher Kristen Dale's classroom didn't have was quite a bit longer than the list of things it did. It had about a half-dozen circular tables,...

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  Obscured by Tornado News, an Important Story at Dallas Public Schools

  October 24 at 4 a.m.

  Something important in local education has happened over the last few days, a story that has already slipped beneath the wave of tornado news. It is worth noting as both a harbinger of progress and a very depressing reminder why progress comes hard. Dallas school Superintendent Michael Hinojosa has announced...

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  Students from Tornado-Damaged Schools Return to Class

  October 24 at 4 a.m.

  At a little after 9 a.m. Wednesday, Kristen Dale was walking the halls of Thomas Edison Middle Learning Center in West Dallas, stopping groups of kids as they passed. Where are you headed? Do you know where you're going? she asked. Some of them, being teenagers, tried to blow her...