Christine Ayala

Tracy Young, the new director of education at the George W. Bush Institute, argues why school testing matters to gauge student success and college readiness at a time when kids can get ribbons for just showing up.

What began as the largest school cheating scandal of its kind has concluded with convictions and sentencing for the educators involved.

In this week’s Q&A, we interview Christopher McCarthy, an educational psychology professor at the University of Texas at Austin.

Austin voters in 2013 rejected money for school security improvements, overcrowding relief and facility upgrades, but one bond item set the stage for a new plan to improve classroom technology.

After campaign promises to overhaul pre-kindergarten programs in Texas, Gov. Greg Abbott endorsed a House Republican approach to early education that many specialists are calling inadequate.

A fundamental rebranding of school district school librarians in Vancouver, Wash., is underway with its team of 35 “teacher-librarians” facilitating intensive professional development and curriculum development.

The Dallas nurse who contracted Ebola from the nation’s first patient to die of the disease remains locked in a legal battle with her hospital employer.

At a recent women’s health symposium in Dallas, preventive heart specialists said that even genetic risk factors do not trump choices such as a healthy diet when it comes to determining overall health.

Siding with doctors’ groups, the Texas Medical Board voted to limit the use of telemedicine in the state, despite claims that its decision may reduce access to care for some patients.

When it returns from spring recess this week, the U.S. Senate is expected to consider a measure permanently ending Medicare’s sustainable growth rate formula.