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Cal Grant, College Cuts Squeeze Students
By Beau Yarbrough Gavin Santos is not the sort of student anyone would expect would have trouble getting through college. A 2009 Hesperia High School graduate, Santos was a star running back for the Scorpions, president of the ASB, a National Honor Society member and an A student. After graduation, he headed to California State … Continue reading
Improving Higher Education in Texas. By Jeff Sandefer
It’s time for the debate about reforming higher education in Texas to move past disparaging professors or demonizing reformers, so we can capitalize on ways to improve the learning and research at our Texas universities. By Jeff Sandefer The cost of a college degree is too high, and our graduates are not as well prepared … Continue reading
How Business Can Improve Education
Why scholarships and tutoring won’t cut it On Monday, President Obama invited a group of CEOs from corporate giants including Intel, Time Warner, Bank of America, and Microsoft to a sit-down at the White House. In a time when cash-strapped states, districts, and schools are scrambling to plug budget shortfalls, the president’s message was clear: Business … Continue reading
SAS® Flash Cards for Apple® iPad® and iPhone® Good for All Ages
SAS’ new and improved SAS® Flash Cards for Apple iPad and iPhone is now available from the App Store. The free app lets users choose from more than 3,000 flash cards or create their own custom decks that can be published for public download. “This is a unique educational app for Apple mobile device users,” … Continue reading
Technology and Teaching
By Steven J. Corbett Is it a given that technology enhances the acts of writing, as it does the arts and sciences of film-making, design, engineering, data collection and analyses, and so forth? What about the teaching and learning of writing? In a flurry of recent exchanges (subject “Writing horse-shoe-of-horse-heading-east Technology”) on the Writing Program … Continue reading
How Productive Do Professors Have to Be?
By Charlotte Allen The firing of a controversial aide to the University of Texas system has triggered a full-blown debate over the productivity of teachers and whether “star” professors who teach few classes are really worth the cost to the public. Rick O’Donnell, dismissed on April 19 after only 49 days on the job as … Continue reading
New School to Plant STEM Seeds
Reynoldsburg sets ‘real world’ projects By Charlie Boss In Reynoldsburg schools, teaching STEM goes beyond a focus on science, technology, engineering and math. Officials say their approach calls for students to become strong communicators, think deeper and more creatively, and apply lessons to the real world. They are encouraged to explore, be curious and collaborate. … Continue reading
Why Do Chinese Students Outperform American Students?
Anyone who has been paying attention for the past 20 years knows by now that, in America, Asian students perform the best, white students perform just below them, and Latino and African-American students are performing on the lowest rung of the academic ladder. Anyone who has been paying attention in the past 10 years knows … Continue reading
Rick Perry Candidacy Would Help Republican Outreach to Latinos
While Texas Governor Rick Perry has a reputation as a strong conservative, his more moderate views on immigration reform might help Republicans attract Latino voters if he were to be the Republican nominee in November of 2012. By Napp Nazworth In 2001, Perry signed a bill in Texas, known as the DREAM Act, which allowed … Continue reading
GOP Absentees Quietly Stalk Iowa
By PATRICK O’CONNOR DES MOINES, Iowa—For all the talk about Michele Bachmann and other GOP White House hopefuls actively campaigning in Iowa, much of the speculation centers on two conspicuously absent Republicans: Mitt Romney and Texas Gov. Rick Perry. Mr. Romney’s low profile so far reflects a strategic decision to focus his time and money … Continue reading
UTIMCO Board Approves Salary Raises for CEO, Staff
By Reeve Hamilton The board of the University of Texas Investment Management Company, which manages endowment funds and other assets for the University of Texas System and to a lesser extent the Texas A&M University System, approved on Thursday salary increases for the company’s staff as well as Bruce Zimmerman, its chief executive officer and chief … Continue reading
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Times of Florida
- Rick Scott, Florida Governor, Cuts College Funding, Vetoes Unlimited Tuition Hike Bill
- La Raza Launches Campaign to Register Hispanic Voters
- Next Generation: What Does the Future Hold for Hispanic College Graduates?
- Luidia finds that tight budgets change, don’t eliminate tech implementations
- Romney’s Attack on Latinos Sends the Right Off a Cliff
- In our schools: Keys to helping non-native speakers learn
- Florida GOP moving forward with several bills to increase state funding for charter schools
- Jeb Bush foundation helps shape Florida education policy
- Latino swing voters and higher ed
- Florida Set for New Cut in Spending on Colleges – Tuition Increase
Americans For Prosperity – Texas
- Blogger provides fresh perspective of UT President Powers’ astroturf campaign to keep his job
- Texas primary ballot initiatives - non-binding polls
- Harmony Schools on CBS 60 Minutes - Turkish English teachers are needed
- School Board members censure fellow member - for dissent
- TPPF's Tom Lindsay and Maverick Owner Mark Cuban provide insight which could rock UT's ivory tower
- UT Regents Commended for Standing Up to Powers
- Texas to FWS: Leave Texas -- and the Lizard -- Alone
- San Antonio pushing almost $.5 Billion bond initiative
- AFP is the messenger of news Obama doesn't want out
- Local Governments Racking up Debt: House Ways & Means Committee Hearing - Testimony by Peggy Venable
Univision Austin
- Lo Más Hot de Texas
- Las cuatro más bellas en bikini
- Jennifer López no usa sostén
- Las bodas más caras de la historia
- Importante cierre de autopista en Houston este fin de semana
- "Tiempo de Danzón" en Dallas
- Acudió a Walmart por cambio de aceite y salió con símbolos satánicos en su auto
- Permiten cazar con silenciador en Texas
Times of Florida
- Rick Scott, Florida Governor, Cuts College Funding, Vetoes Unlimited Tuition Hike Bill
- La Raza Launches Campaign to Register Hispanic Voters
- Next Generation: What Does the Future Hold for Hispanic College Graduates?
- Luidia finds that tight budgets change, don’t eliminate tech implementations
- Romney’s Attack on Latinos Sends the Right Off a Cliff
- In our schools: Keys to helping non-native speakers learn
- Florida GOP moving forward with several bills to increase state funding for charter schools
- Jeb Bush foundation helps shape Florida education policy
- Latino swing voters and higher ed
- Florida Set for New Cut in Spending on Colleges – Tuition Increase
AgendaWise Reports
- Speaker Struas stragglers marked
- Murphy Turner connected to shadow PACs
- Trina Lanza on her priorities for the 83rd Legislature
- Diane Patrick on her priorities for the 83rd Legislature
- Straus the weak
- Diane Patrick on her vote for speaker
- Trina Lanza on her vote for speaker
- Vicki Truitt’s Trouble
- Mark Shelton on the expansion of gambling
- Mark Shelton on his priorities for the 83rd Legislature
Texas Insider
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Freedomworks.org Texas
- Former House Majority Leader Dick Armey endorses Matt Beebe for State Representative in Texas House District 121
- FreedomWorks Grassroots Training in Round Rock, Tx on Feb. 18th
- FreedomWorks Grassroots Events in Texas - January 2012
- FreedomWorks grassroots training in Shreveport, Louisiana on Oct. 8th!
- Another One Bites the (Fracking) Dust
- In the Shadow of the Senate: A New Tax Emerges
- Join FreedomWorks and local Houston-area groups for grassroots training on July 16th
- Texas to TSA: "Come and Take It."
- Join FreedomWorks and Houston Tea Party on July 16th!
- The Light Bulb Resistance Movement
Freedomworks.org Florida
- CPAC Florida Recap
- Champions of Freedom Rout Competition in Florida
- Champions of Freedom Rout Competition in Florida
- FreedomWorks Kicks Off 'Give Us Liberty' Tour in Florida this week!
- What Do Rep. Allen Boyd's (D-FL) Constituents Think About Health Care Vote?
- Florida State Legislature is Back, and So Is the Need for Insurance Reform
- Florida State Legislature is Back, and So Is the Need for Insurance Reform
- Woman's year-ago protest launched tea party movement in Florida
STEM
- STEM Ed Update: Sign-on Letter on Federal Budget, Upcoming Events, NEW STEM Reports
- Coalition Issues Core Policy Principles for 2012
- Coalition Testifies to House Approps on NSF’s Education Programs
- Quotes on STEM Education from the 2/28 House Markup of ESEA Legislation
- The White House Invites You to Join on a Budget Call to Discuss STEM Education
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