Christine Ayala

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A bipartisan bill presented to the U.S. Senate contains a plan to drastically overhaul No Child Left Behind, with key facets like scaling back emphasis on standardized test results.

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.

In this week’s Q&A, we interview Anka Vujanovic, an assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.

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.