With a 29-day special session in the rearview mirror, we should find out today whether the Texas Legislature is coming back for more — but this time, to draw a new congressional map for the state ahead of 2018 elections.

In this week’s Q&A, we interview Diego Román, an assistant professor in teaching and learning at Southern Methodist University. 

In this week’s Bookshelf, our content partner Kirkus Reviews highlights “Classroom Community Builders.”

The Texas Education Agency said fewer Texas schools failed academic standards this year, even as students continue to struggle on state tests. 

The conversation swirling around President Donald Trump's comments on white nationalists and whether Confederate statues should be torn down doesn't appear to be going away in Texas — or around the nation — anytime soon. 

A federal judge told Baylor University to produce some interviews and documents as part of an ongoing investigation on campus sexual assault.

The poll by the Harvard journal Education Next found a big decline in support nationally for charter schools.

The assistant principal at a Denton middle school had self-published a book over the summer whose central figure is a white supremacist symbol. 

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos distanced herself from remarks she made about historically black colleges pioneering school school.

When the special legislative session abruptly ended Tuesday night, property tax legislation was among several items left undone on Gov. Greg Abbott's to-do list for lawmakers. 

The spark that started the deadly white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday — unrest over Confederate monuments — has been reignited here in Texas. Here's a look at what cities are considering.  

A lot has happened these past few days — even if you only include the words "white nationalist" and "Texas A&M University." 

The end of the first-called special session may be in sight for the Texas Legislature, which spent most of the weekend debating measures Gov. Greg Abbott wants it to pass.

Are we done yet? The last weekend of the first-called special legislative session by Gov. Greg Abbott is upon us, and things at the Capitol are shaping up to be busy. 

A federal judge dismissed Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's request to dub the state's new "sanctuary cities" ban constitutional on Wednesday — but the legal battle isn't over yet.