Texas State Makes the Leap to Big-Time Football

Bobcats enter FBS

"...The stadium has been expanded to 30,000 seats. The Texas State Bobcats will compete at the Football Bowl Subdivision..."

Aug. 30, 2012 Sports Post by Joe O'Connell

Introducing the 2019 Class of the Austin Arts Hall of Fame

The stories behind the art transformers of this year's Hall of Fame inductees

"...and from that comes transformations, art that changes ways of working, ideas, and the community. The Austin Arts Hall..."

May 24, 2019 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

We Don't Need No Education(al Software)

If UT is so hard up for cash, why is it removing computer labs to make way for "student meeting spaces"?

"...The University of Texas at Austin is complaining that it doesn't..."

Aug. 2, 2007 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Trans UT Student Isn’t Giving Up on School or the Military

Freshman loses ROTC scholarship under Trump’s trans military ban

"...Shortly after the Department of Defense’s new transgender policy went into effect on Friday,..."

April 18, 2019 News Post by Lilli Hime

Shade Rolls Out of Council Race?

This April 1 release from the Shade campaign

"...Be Community’s Top Priority; Calls Incumbent Jennifer Kim “One Of The Best Council Members In Austin’s History” Austin, Texas,..."

April 1, 2008 News Post by Wells Dunbar

Out of Her Cage

Micah Magee explores a Texan's teen pregnancy in Petting Zoo

"...Like the protagonist of her film Petting Zoo, Micah Magee grew up in..."

March 17, 2015 SXSW Post by Amy Gentry

Questions of Church-State Separation at Dell Seton Medical Center

Do the hospital’s ties to the Catholic church and limits on women’s reproductive health care compromise Dell Med students' training?

"...grown accustomed to the parking cones, forklifts, and sounds of rapid construction. But in Feb­ru­ary, that clatter should end,..."

Jan. 20, 2017 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Law of the Land

The Present: Has Hopwood Changed the World?

"...illustration by Jason Stout In March 18, 1996, Texas had the dubious honor of becoming the first state..."

Feb. 6, 1998 News Feature by Nicole Kleman

University High

Community colleges are pushing "college credit" courses for high school students -- but the education is in doubt.

"...Jane is a straight-A high school student enrolled in a U.S. government course offered by..."

June 8, 2001 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

Margin of Error

Some Texas high schools may be violating the "top 10%" law, which guarantees admission to UT and other Texas colleges and universities, by exaggerating the number of students in the top 10% of their graduating classes.

"...The director of under-graduate admissions at the University of Texas says a..."

April 21, 2000 News Feature by Jonathan David Carroll

The Tools of the Trade

Southwest Texas State's Jazz Program

"...where your particular timeline begins, with the first syncopation of the blues form, with Ragtime, with King Oliver, or..."

June 13, 1997 Music Feature by Christopher Hess

The Life and Death of Schools

Educational warrior Diane Ravitch takes on the "school reform" movement

"...On the subject of public education, Diane Ravitch may be America's most important..."

Sept. 28, 2012 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Taking Politics Back to School

State Board of Ed races highlight educational tensions

"...One only has to sit in the State Board of Education's boardroom and look out the window to see..."

Sept. 17, 2010 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Gifted and Talented Education Programs Turn the Lights Out on Non-White Students

"Race is the greatest predictor of who succeeds and fails in American public education"

"...When Yasmine Smith was in elementary school, her teachers planned to refer her to the special..."

Nov. 22, 2019 News Feature by Autumn A. Arnett

In the Name of Ann Richards

AISD's School for Young Women Leaders is a district showcase – does its glittering reputation hide a darker side for teachers and students?

"...a story about the hard-drinking, hard-talking, silver-haired pit fighter of Texas politics. But she believed in redemption. She once..."

Aug. 30, 2013 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Top 10 Education Stories

Reading, writing, arithmetic ... well, that's three!

"...1) Goodbye NCLB, Hello ESSA The school year saw schools nationally adapt to the Every Student..."

Dec. 30, 2016 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Slow Dying of Johnston High

State accountability standards may close a school on the edge of survival

"...the community to pull together to save the pride of the Eastside might have been a turning point for..."

Nov. 30, 2007 News Feature by Kimberly Reeves

The Education Session

The Lege takes another run at patching school finance

"...If there's a poster child for what's best about Texas school kids, she could be Regan Lively. With a..."

May 1, 2015 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Sculpting a School

David Deming on the Art of Being a Dean

"...question, now fetching a can for a quick sip of soda, now smoothing a paper atop his desk. They're..."

Aug. 29, 1997 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Public Education Under Fire

New doc Starving the Beast uncovers ideological clash

"...an expansive story about a deepening philosophical divide over education in America. The story is so expansive, in fact,..."

March 11, 2016 Screens Feature by Nora Ankrum

Land of the Free: the History of State-owned Lands in Texas

"...The University of Texas has several icons that endure. From the..."

May 19, 2000 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Headlines / Quote of the Week

"...Commissioner Dawn Buckingham. Cornyn said he’ll push to get Texas reimbursed for the billions it’s already spent harassing immigrants...."

Jan. 31, 2025 News Feature

Kirk Watson Resigns From Texas Senate

Former Austin mayor jumps ship for academia, effective April 30

"...former mayor and its District 14 rep in the Texas Senate since 2006, announced today that he'll be stepping..."

Feb. 18, 2020 News Post by Kimberley Jones

What Follows Five Years of Failure at Mendez Middle School?

Making the grade

"...Two weeks ago, when the Texas Education Agency released district and campus scores as part..."

Aug. 31, 2018 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Top 10 Education Stories

Edukayshun 'r' us

"...Austin ISD saw fit to hand Eastside Memorial High School and Allan Elementary over to IDEA Public Schools to..."

Jan. 6, 2012 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Whether to Laugh or Cry: Sex Ed in Texas

A new report takes an unprecedented look at the state of sex ed in Texas public schools

"...go. At least that's the message given to public school students who are taught the WAIT Training abstinence-only sex-education..."

Feb. 27, 2009 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Texas Faith and Freedom

Samantha Smoot recounts her work with the Texas Freedom Network

"...Samantha Smoot, executive director of the Texas Freedom Network since 1998, recently announced her..."

Oct. 15, 2004 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

The Challenge of Judge Dietz

School finance decision puts responsibility where it's always been - on all of us

"...District Judge John Dietz last week found the current Texas public school finance system unconstitutional. His rulings were brief..."

Sept. 24, 2004 News Column by Michael King

Salt of the Earth

Local activists remember Cesar Chavez on the seventh anniversary of his death.

"...did. Chavez's influence on Austin is remarkable, considering that Texas is a right-to-work state with no allegiance to other..."

April 28, 2000 News Feature by Paul Ciavarri

The Education of a Lifetime

A look at UT's Performing Arts Center and the process by which they bring the biggest names in jazz to Austin.

"...midnight, long after UT's Bass Concert Hall had turned off all the lights and gone to bed. Except, down..."

Oct. 29, 1999 Music Feature by Christopher Hess

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