Christine Ayala

Despite the meager pay and lack of societal support, 2015 Teacher of the Year recipient Shanna Peeples said the benefits of teaching are enough to call a new generation of educators to the profession.

Comedian Stephen Colbert has pledged $800,000 and has partnered with the Morgridge Family Foundation and the tech company ScanSource to fund nearly 1,000 classroom projects at over 375 schools across the state.

At a Las Vegas town hall meeting that included undocumented students, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton promised to expand on efforts to provide those students with a path to citizenship.

The latest episode of the education podcast “Ask a Teacher” focuses on teacher burnout. Host Matt Collette asks three current teachers what keeps them energized in the classroom.

Data from the National Institute for Early Education Research shows an increased gap between the number of states offering pre-kindergarten services and those that do not.

Six years after he explored the high cost of medical care in McAllen in “The Cost Conundrum,” The New Yorker’s Atul Gawande returns and finds improvement has been made in cutting Medicare costs in the city.

Patients at Fort Worth’s Moncrief Cancer Institute now have access to comprehensive cancer care through the only National Cancer Institute-designated cancer center in North Texas.

Global spending on cancer drugs hit $100 billion last year, prompted by new and patented drugs, broader insurance coverage and aging populations. That figure is up more than 10 percent since 2013.

Johnson & Johnson has appointed a leading bioethicist to head a panel to determine how to handle requests from people who are critically ill and want access to promising drugs before they are approved.

In this week’s Q&A, we interview Scott Walters, a professor of behavioral and community health at the University of North Texas Health Science Center.