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State Board of Education Votes Down Second Mexican-American Studies Textbook
Rejected Text, Pt. 2
"...a refreshing departure from its historically politicized decisions on textbooks. Most SBOE members who voted against the latest book,..."

Nov. 17, 2017 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Internet Back to School Supplies
You've filled out the apps to get here – now it's time to download some
"...group. While it’s a great place to find cheap textbooks around the beginning of semesters, you can also find..."

Aug. 22, 2017 Chronolog Post by Katarina Brown

Marathon House Debate Yields “Show Me Your Papers” Sanctuary Cities Bill
Amendment lets cops question detainees' immigration status
"...failed. Pointing to racist voting maps and whitewashed history textbooks, Anchia cast the legislation as another piece in the..."

April 27, 2017 News Post by Mary Tuma

State Board of Education Evolves
A rare bit of good news out of the SBOE
"...– opened the door for anti-evolution arguments in science textbooks by adding a new curriculum requirement that students must..."

April 28, 2017 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Luv Doc: FMB
Mouths are undoubtedly festering cesspools of bacterial flora
"...Now, as to your boyfriend getting his undies in..."

Jan. 27, 2017 Column by The Luv Doc

"Warhol by the Book" at the Blanton
What's most interesting in this retrospective is the early work that shows just how damn good Warhol was at graphic design
"...book-related work, from doodles he made in his college textbooks to a collection of Hans Christian Andersen-inspired illustrations Warhol..."

Jan. 13, 2017 Arts Review by Sam Anderson-Ramos

Chronicle Endorsements: State of Texas
Senate, House, State Board of Education, and more races
"...encourage stronger vetting for historically error-prone and controversial Texas textbooks. Oh, and unlike her Republican opponent, she actually believes..."

Oct. 21, 2016 News Feature

Headlines
"...Texas State Board of Education to reject Mexican-American studies textbooks deemed offensive and racially insensitive. Latino activists and educators..."

Sept. 9, 2016 News Feature

Marie Antoinette
Capital T Theatre's production asks just how accountable the French queen was for all her actions
"...play, the character, and the historical person. Known in textbooks as the selfish, materialistic French queen who lost her..."

March 11, 2016 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

Education Is the Next Punk Rock
Hands-on learning for those interested in the music business
"...touring in 1962." His response was to write three textbooks of his own – Tour:Smart (2007), its upcoming prequel..."

March 4, 2016 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Shay Ishii Dance Company's Dancestry ... Vivid
Audiences gained much from this program's re-creations of historic dances by Isadora Duncan, Loïe Fuller, and Lucia Dlugoszewski
"...Fuller and Duncan are well covered in dance history textbooks, Dlugoszewski (1931–2000) is often outside their scope. The second..."

Jan. 22, 2016 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

Out of Pocket
Teachers forced to pay for supplies after flood
"...where craft supplies play a much bigger role than textbooks. When the floods hit, teachers lost the materials they..."

Dec. 11, 2015 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Headlines
"...proposals last week that help would ensure accuracy in textbooks – a measure requiring books get fact-checked by a..."

Nov. 27, 2015 News Feature

Headlines
"...and to labor against their will as slaves." Texas textbooks that hit classrooms this fall were crafted with heavy..."

Oct. 9, 2015 News Feature

ACL Review: Waxahatchee
Next-gen festers?
"...the audience were sitting on the grass and annotating textbooks while the band performed...."

Oct. 5, 2015 Music Post by Libby Webster

Who's Responsible for Financial Aid Woes at H-T?
Students frustrated by delayed aid
"...many students have yet to purchase necessary supplies, including textbooks. University professors are being understanding and compensating by making..."

March 20, 2015 News Feature by Tashanna Turner

Top 10 Education Stories
The year in local education

Jan. 2, 2015 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Luv Doc: Too Much Christmas
Lasting oppression really only works if you have a really good PR campaign
"...like such assholes for trying to put creationism into textbooks – especially now that our shaggy-haired peacenik Pope has..."

Dec. 26, 2014 Column by The Luv Doc

Headlines
"...of Education met this week to debate social studies textbooks, criticized as ideologically-driven and factually inaccurate by a coalition..."

Nov. 21, 2014 News Feature

This Time It’s Personal
Michael Barker endows Ed Lowry Student Film Program at AFS
"...students – you’re now discovering, that after buying your textbooks and shelling out for all your other necessities, there’s..."

Aug. 26, 2014 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

SBOE Votes a Little Ethnicity
Compromise vote locally developed ethnic studies courses
"...ahead to the state board’s adoption of social studies textbooks for our public schools later this year.”..."

April 11, 2014 News Post by Michael King

Teacher’s Helper
Online lesson-sharing sees global growth
"...on between teachers today, it won't be long until textbooks go the way of chalkboard and transparency projectors: outdated..."

March 7, 2014 News Post by Rod Machen

The Good Eye: Oscar Beige
Oscar beige
"...pretty even if you have bangs and read aesthetics textbooks, as long as you wink and twirl a lot,..."

March 7, 2014 Column by Amy Gentry

Top 10 Education Stories
Mack Brown, Meria Carstarphen, and the rest of the gang
"...Educa­tion rejected calls from creationists to dump new science textbooks for having too much science in them. As the..."

Jan. 3, 2014 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Holy Cow
Gohmert says atheists should be encouraging Christianity
"...be fretting about Creationism being included in high school textbooks or crèches being erected in front of courthouses. They..."

Dec. 9, 2013 News Post by Brandon Watson

Writers on Kennedy
What we think about when we think about JFK
"...and track coach, bus driver, and head cook. Our textbooks were hand-me-downs from the "White School." This was long..."

Nov. 22, 2013 News Feature by Harold McMillan

News Ticker: October 17
All the news that's fit to blog
"...her battle to inject more burning bushes into science textbooks. Thankfully, she now has enough unpublished fiction to start..."

Oct. 17, 2013 News Post by Brandon Watson

Cornering the Market
With its second location, Wheatsville expands its cooperative mission
"...specific needs of their members – such as housing, textbooks, or food – rather than to maximize profits. Other..."

Oct. 11, 2013 Food Feature by Kate Thornberry

Dive Into the Great 'Unknown'
Errol Morris and Don Rumsfeld take us on a tour of U.S. history
"...proportion of those years exists in memory rather than textbooks, and he even calls out Morris at one point..."

Sept. 22, 2013 Screens Post by Monica Riese

Wheatsville’s New South Location Opening Today
Austin hippies strike another blow against soulless capitalism
"...the famous University Co-op where most students purchase their textbooks. Wheatsville Co-op began as an all-volunteer food distribution co-op,..."

Sept. 20, 2013 Food Post by Kate Thornberry

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