Learning To Read Late in Life: There's An App For That
A team from SMU and LIFT, Literacy Instruction for Texas, collaborated on a video game app recently awarded a $2.5 million prize in a global literacy competition.
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A team from SMU and LIFT, Literacy Instruction for Texas, collaborated on a video game app recently awarded a $2.5 million prize in a global literacy competition.
The announcement comes just days after a CBS 11 investigation uncovered questionable spending by current and former administrators.
The Senate Finance Committee unanimously approved SB 3 providing a permanent $5,000 annual salary increase for every classroom teacher in the state.
District leaders have determined that pouring more resources into academically challenged campuses can help spur turnaround effort.
Cooper Phillips of Keller High School is one of six finalists for the National Speech & Debate Association's Exemplary Student Service Award.
Lovejoy ISD in Collin County is refusing calls for an explanation about why longtime Superintendent Ted Moore was allowed to resign Wednesday despite allegations of inappropriate conduct.
Kerens ISD, east of Corsicana in Navarro County, will be closed on Thursday and Friday, February 14-15, 2019 due to illnesses, the district said on its Facebook page Wednesday.
Total "global student population" is expected to exceed 60,000 this academic year, according to the University.
Two schools in the Grapevine-Colleyville Independent School District were evacuated after receiving bomb threats.
Tuesday morning Texas Governor Greg Abbott gave his State of the State address to the Texas Legislature.
According to Coppell ISD, 285 students were out sick on Wednesday. That's fewer than the number reporting flu-like symptoms earlier in the week.
The Mansfield ISD is taking school beyond the four walls of a classroom at a new campus for four-year-old's.
University leaders say 71 percent of UNT Dallas students are first-generation college scholars, but University President Bob Mong says their students respond well to "pathway opportunities."
The lawsuit claimed minorities couldn't get elected in at-large elections. Now Richardson ISD moves to single-member districts.
Two South Dallas elementary schools have been chosen to become the area's first stand alone schools for the talented and gifted, provided the DISD board gives the okay.