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Aug. 22, 2003 Column
May's Response to Leo on Beckwith Misleading
Aug. 14, 2003 Postmarks
Arts Stalwarts
Twelve of Austin's cultural heroes will be inducted into the Austin Arts Hall of Fame at the 2003 Austin Critics Table Awards ceremony, and here is an introduction to them and some of their significant contributions to the local arts scene.
"...stayed there 48 years, during which time he co-wrote textbooks on art education and helped develop many successful artists...."
May 30, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
The Sound of Falling Dominoes
The state budget crisis is only one piece of a much larger, distressing government puzzle.
"...schools that have been told not to buy new textbooks. The exact numbers here are even more uncertain: The..."
May 30, 2003 News Column by Michael King
Capitol Chronicle
Always count on the Texas Legislature to remember: The gold rules
"...up their health insurance and schoolchildren to go without textbooks so that the governor can dispense additional financial lagniappes..."
May 9, 2003 News Column by Michael King
"The Definition of Hell"
"...cut by $383 million, principally by only buying new textbooks in subjects scheduled for state accountability testing during the..."
April 18, 2003 News Column by Michael King
Fiddling While Texas Burns
The fight over "tort-reform" is masking a bigger battle over state priorities.
"...environmental crisis; refuse to provide funds for all the textbooks and supplies from Texas classrooms ......"
March 28, 2003 News Column by Michael King
The Hightower Report
Being an arms pimp backfires on the U.S.; and to see our nation's future, look at Texas' miserable present.
"...education chief proposed to eliminate the purchase of new textbooks and teaching materials for social studies, world history, prekindergarten,..."
March 21, 2003 News Column by Jim Hightower
Plays Well With Others
How Creative Commons is redefining copyright law and what it means for artistic collaboration across the Internet.
"...a revolution in pedagogy. Many professors tend to view textbooks -- rigid, obsessively linear, and often obsolete -- as..."
Feb. 28, 2003 Screens Feature by Michael May
Naked City
As the Door Revolves
"...State Board of Education to make certain public school textbooks exhibited no signs of latent left-wing deviation from conservative..."
Dec. 20, 2002 News Feature by Michael King
Bad Bills with a Bullet
"...or this one, which would require 50% of school textbooks to be "electronic" by 2005, 95% by 2007. On..."
Dec. 13, 2002 News Feature
Naked City
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"...the State Board of Education, which adopted social studies textbooks (see The Battle of Washington's Bulge), decided against blasting..."
Nov. 22, 2002 News Feature
Naked City
Protesting SBOE Censorship
"...students come to college miseducated by "censored and distorted" textbooks, full of inaccurate or incomplete history imposed by the..."
Nov. 15, 2002 News Feature by Michael King
SBOE: A Green Challenge?
Green Party candidate Lesley Ramsey aims to bring progressive values to the right-wing State Board of Education.
"...month, the board will vote to adopt social studies textbooks; over the summer, the Texas Freedom Network organized the..."
Oct. 18, 2002 News Feature by Lauri Apple
The MonkeyWrench Manifesto
Volunteers of America: If you're feeling sinister, North Loop's newest wants you.
"...in talks with MonkeyWrench to arrange for his students' textbooks to be purchased there by order. It should also..."
Aug. 16, 2002 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley
Naked City
"...Board of Education began public hearings on social studies textbooks; hearings will continue into the fall...."
July 26, 2002 News Feature by Lauri Apple
Naked City
This week's roundup of local news and politics
July 12, 2002 News Feature by Lauri Apple
Naked City
"...who will discuss the right-wing's role in deciding how textbooks portray issues ranging from evolution to creationism, as well..."
May 31, 2002 News Feature by Lauri Apple
Steven Saylor's Ancient Habit
Steven Saylor's series of mysteries set in ancient Rome is one of the best mystery series being published today.
"...his sleuth and re-creating a world usually elucidated in textbooks rather than this gripping prose...."
May 24, 2002 Books Feature by Clay Smith
Steven Saylor's Ancient Habit
Steven Saylor's series of mysteries set in ancient Rome is one of the best mystery series being published today.
"...his sleuth and re-creating a world usually elucidated in textbooks rather than this gripping prose...."
May 24, 2002 Books Feature by Clay Smith
Naked City
"...tot, a "Texas Scholars" incubator program for companies replacing textbooks with multimedia products, flexible schedules for statewide testing, "empowering..."
May 24, 2002 News Feature by Lauri Apple
2002 Summer Camps
"...power, chemistry, engineering, biology and all like that? Dry textbooks in mind-numbing succession just won't fit the bill, will..."
May 10, 2002 Features Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner
KUT and Paste
KUT does major reconstructive surgery on its schedule, risking the wrath of change-phobic listeners.
"...and Dyslexic, a local nonprofit that distributes recordings of textbooks and educational materials...."
Jan. 25, 2002 News Feature by Lee Nichols
Naked City
Not Quite by the Book
"...headlines concern its ideological rejection of several environmental science textbooks on the putative grounds of "factual errors." In the..."
Nov. 30, 2001 News Feature by Michael King
The Tenth Annual "Austin Chronicle' Short Story Contest Results
"...has written articles for magazines, professional journals, and literature textbooks. She learned everything she knows about writing and literature..."
Oct. 19, 2001 Books Feature
A Primer on Peppers
The Fire Behind the 'Austin Chronicle' Hot Sauce Festival
"...in her spare time, while teaching art, she bought textbooks and began to teach herself botany to properly prepare..."
Aug. 24, 2001 Food Feature by MM Pack
The Trial of Henry Kissinger
"...we will face Kissinger's full story only in the textbooks of coming generations...."
May 11, 2001 Books Review by Tim Walker
Writing in Tongues
Concepts exist in some cultures but not in others, Chronicle writer Belinda Acosta writes in an article about the art of translation. Sorting them out is left to translators, who must act the part of cultural guides, diplomats, and social chameleons.
"...Llorona), several children's books, and brochures for art exhibits, textbooks, and test materials for the Texas Assessment of Academic..."
Jan. 12, 2001 Books Feature by Belinda Acosta
Co-op in Smoke
The fire that destroyed the Arrakis Co-op left more than embers in its wake.
"...the blaze; the University Co-op has offered to replace textbooks that were burnt. ICC has also contacted national cooperative..."
Jan. 12, 2001 Features Feature by Stuart Prestidge
Sam Cooke The Man Who Invented Soul (RCA)
"...of stainless steel bookcases belching 25 cent paperbacks and textbooks at the Goodwill -- of one of the greatest..."
