Welcome to Trib+Edu, an education news wrap-up and analysis prepared every other week by The Texas Tribune and The University of Texas at Austin's College of Education. Keep up to date with the college through its Twitter or Facebook accounts. |
Trib+Edu Vol: 3 Issue: 14 |
| by Kiah Collier The state will divvy up $116 million among 578 school districts and charters to bolster high-quality pre-kindergarten programs, Education Commissioner Mike Morath announced Tuesday. |
| by Kiah Collier The oil bust is threatening to deal a serious financial blow to schools in oil-producing regions across the state — particularly if it lingers. |
| by Madeline Conway In this week’s Q&A, we interview Keffrelyn Brown, an associate professor in the curriculum and instruction department at the University of Texas at Austin. |
| by Madeline Conway In this week's Bookshelf, our content partner Kirkus Reviews highlights Substitute. |
| Mississippi’s Yazoo County School District has entered into an energy savings performance contract with a global energy company that guarantees energy upgrades to schools will decrease cripplingly high maintenance costs. |
| Fifty years after a report tracked the opportunity gaps between white and black students in K-12 schools across the United States change can be measured in some areas, but significant gaps clearly remain. |
| Free lesson plans and other instructional materials will soon be offered via Amazon’s newest site, Amazon Inspire. |
| Syracuse City School District is finding creative ways to meet the needs of its dramatically expanded English language learner population. |
| The study, lauded by Democrats, suggests that the most successful schools in the state spent at least $8,667 per student during the 2013-14 school year. |
| Massachusetts’ state board of elementary and secondary education has unanimously adopted voluntary digital literacy and computer science standards for all K-12 schools. |
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