Don’t mess with Texas school reform
Texas legislators returned to Austin earlier this week to try once again to enact a statewide school-choice program in the form of edu
Texas legislators returned to Austin earlier this week to try once again to enact a statewide school-choice program in the form of edu
There are forty-four phonemes that make up every word in the English language. Some of these small units of sound occur more frequently than others, but none can be dispensed with entirely when teaching children to sound out words and read with fluency—not even the phoneme /d/ as in “Democrat” or /r/ as in “Republican.”
Many school districts use teacher rating scales to identify students for advanced (i.e., gifted) programming, such as supplementary instruction and separate classes or schools.
The yawning gap in life expectancy between high school grads and dropouts is more complicated than some narratives imply.