Larry Faulkner and George Grainger: The TT Interview
After stepping down as president of the University of Texas in 2006, a post he had held since 1998, Larry Faulkner took the reins of the Houston Endowment.
He retired from his post as president at the philanthropic organization last month, but he’s making the rounds — including a stop at the offices of The Texas Tribune last week — to spread the word about the results of a Houston Endowment project he hopes will change the way people in Texas think and talk about education.
Rather than analyzing the state’s higher education success using traditional metrics, the endowment tracked ...
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Karen Spivey-Cummings via Texas Tribune on Facebook
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Alan shoho
If Texas wants to make higher education affordable, it can be done easily. All that needs to be done is have the legislature pony up their share of the expense. For the past decade, the legislature has been decreasing it's share of the higher education budget, thus forcing individual institutions to increase their tuition and fees.
Jim King
Regarding 8th graders, the statement "...We can find every one of them in public school." is troubling because it implies that only PUBLIC schools were examined. A significant percentage of high achieving kids go to PRIVATE school. There was no mention of private schools in Texas, nor any assurance that private school 8th graders were included in the study. That information should have been explicit since it bears so heavily on the results.
nick pell
For whatever reason, it just seems like Texans are not by and large interested in, nor do they see the benefit of, widespread prosperity.