Media coverage of the 21st-Century Science Coalition press conference at the Texas Education Agency in Austin was heavy. The press conference came the week after work groups made up of teachers and academics appointed by theTexas State ...
Associated Press - October 1, 2008 7:13 PM ET HOUSTON (AP) - The Texas Education Agency is not requiring schools that closed after Hurricane Ike to make up all the time that students...
"We are here to support and promote strong, clear, modern science education in Texas schools," said David Hillis, professor of integrative biology at the University of Texas at Austin. "Texas public schools should be preparing our kids ...
The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board’s (THECB) Uniform GPA Advisory Committee proposed new rules to establish a standard method to compute a high school student’s grade point average for admission to general academic teaching ...
A first draft of new Texas state science standards removes language that says students should understand the “strengths and weaknesses” of scientific theories and hypotheses in biology.
The group of professors held a news conference Tuesday in the lobby of the Texas Education Agency in Austin and said that they would be watching while a state board rewrites the state public school science curriculum next year. ...
October 1, 2008: A new coalition of Texas scientists voiced its opposition to attempts to dilute the treatment of evolution in Texas's state science standards, which are presently undergoing revision. At a news conference in Austin on ...
A formula that all high schools would have to use to calculate GPAs is encountering strong resistance from educators who fear it could discourage teenagers from taking challenging courses.
He discounted the testimony from expert teachers and national experts in English and reading, he discounted the College Readiness Standards, and he discounted the advice of the Texas Education Agency-appointed writing teams in English ...
Texas scientists are doing their best to push yet another camel's nose back out of the tent. More than 800 of them have signed a statement opposing the Texas State Board of Education's long-standing requirement that students be taught ...
