In this week’s Q&A, we interview Kay Wijekumar, an education professor at Texas A&M University.
Eleanor Dearman
Eleanor Dearman is a former reporting fellow. She majored in journalism at the University of Texas at Austin. She has also interned for the San Antonio Express-News in its Austin bureau covering Texas politics and contributed to PolitiFact Texas.
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The Brief: Sept. 16, 2015
Steve Patterson’s tenure as athletics director at the University of Texas at Austin ended on Tuesday, just a couple of months shy of two years on the job.
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The Brief: Sept. 15, 2015
With GOP frontrunner Donald Trump attracting thousands to a Monday night rally at the American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas Republicans increasingly must face this question: Can Trump win in Texas?
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The Bookshelf: Sept. 15, 2015
In this week’s Bookshelf, our content partner Kirkus Reviews highlights The Patient’s Playbook.
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The Brief: Sept. 14, 2015
Following a newspaper investigation of Land Commissioner George P. Bush’s work calendar, his office pushed back on a couple of fronts, releasing online a sharply worded letter to the editor and granting an interview to the Tribune.
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Audit: Scant Proof of Event Fund’s Tax Impact
Texas has given out tens of millions of dollars to entice events like Formula 1 racing and the Super Bowl to the state. But no one’s done a great job of testing whether the state gets a good return on its investment, a new audit has found.
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The Bookshelf: Sept. 9, 2015
In this week’s Bookshelf, our content partner Kirkus Reviews highlights Katrina.
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The Brief: Sept. 4, 2015
Ted Cruz was back on his home turf of Texas on Thursday for a quick one-day visit, and he came with a message for other GOP presidential hopefuls.
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The Brief: Sept. 3, 2015
The Rick Perry presidential campaign absorbed another blow on Wednesday when word got out that the campaign had no staff left in New Hampshire, site of the first Republican primary contest.
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Survey Shows Parents Support Online Learning
A survey of 2,500 parents of K-12 students across the U.S. returned strong evidence that most are supportive of adaptive digital learning, even if it supplants traditional textbook use.
