For Their Own Good

With a new policy of firing teachers whose students fail to improve, Houston ISD is “is without a doubt the most data-driven district not just in the state, but in the country,” says school board president Greg Meyers.

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Brian Thevenot was an education editor at the Tribune in 2009-10. Previously he spent a dozen years at The Times-Picayune of New Orleans, most recently as special projects editor. As part of a team that...