As parents of teens and twenty-somethings know all too well, higher education comes with a hefty price tag. At UT Austin, in-state tuition will cost you about $10,000 per year – and that’s before room, board, and textbooks. At private institutions like Rice and the Ivy League schools, all expensesRead More

The Spanish Embassy has honored Wharton Elementary School’s Dual Language Program as its School of the Year for the United States and Canada in 2013. The award for academic excellence in Spanish is given by the Education Office for the U.S. and Canada, which is a technical body of theRead More

Last Month, Los Angeles Dodger Clayton Kershaw signed a $215 million dollar contract to become the highest paid pitcher in Major League Baseball history. A product of Highland Park High School, Kershaw has amassed quite a resume during his first six seasons in the league. Debuting on the mound atRead More

On January 31, the Houston Independent School District announced annual instructor bonuses through its ASPIRE program, a merit pay program for teachers funded through state and federal grants and partly through local funds. Statistical analysis suggests that schools with the highest bonuses on average were wealthier, whiter and more selectiveRead More

Last month The Atlantic published an article by Amanda Machado, entitled: Why Teachers of Color Quit, which she followed up with an interview segment on NPR. In the article and interview, Machado outlines the three reasons she walked away from the profession of teaching: a lack of cultural sensitivity byRead More

Historically, Dallas has been viewed as a Southern city big on spending, fashion, and oil. While Dallas certainly helped cultivate this image with its economic expansion in the 1980s, it has, conversely, cultivated an impression that Dallas is a homogeneous city less concerned than, say, the Northeast when it comesRead More

The Justice Department says the State of Louisiana is not authorized to provide private school scholarships to low-income students attending poor performance schools. But Governor Bobby Jindal is resisting. The Louisiana Governor, in a recent Washington Post editorial, said the government’s lawsuit against his state “…would rip children out ofRead More

Teach for America, Democrats for Education Reform, the Center for American Progress, and several other groups concerned with education reform have once again sent an open letter to the Obama Administration in an attempt to get an update on “Our Future, Our Teachers,” a strategic initiative designed to bolster teacherRead More

Imagine if the principles of individualized, self-paced learning could be merged with the brutal competitiveness of the business world.  You might need to “Think Different” (-ly) to see the result.  Eleven schools in the Netherlands, dubbed “Steve Jobs Schools” think they know what that vision looks like — it involvesRead More

Teaching is as much a public service as it is a serious profession. Seldom do individuals decide to pursue a career as educators for the money. Frankly speaking, the pay package of the average American teacher isn’t exactly lucrative; but that’s a different topic for another time. For now, there’sRead More

Performance-based rewards have become an extricable part of the American corporate landscape. The benefits of the performance-linked pay model are evident. Yet, this model has not been whole-heartedly embraced and only partially assimilated by the country’s education sector. The debate on whether teachers should be paid based on performance continuesRead More

HISD has just announced that its Magnet Awareness Week will be November 5-9th for 2012.  During this week, schools will open up their doors to prospective parents daily beginning at 1pm except on Wednesday when tours will begin at 9am. The Magnet Open House is scheduled for Saturday, November 3rdRead More