Improving Educational Outcomes for Children in Public Schools, News
Excerpts from Oak Cliff People By Karley Osborn Staff Writer The Dallas skyline is barely visble above the faced trees surrounding Roger Q. Mills Elementary. The East Oak Cliff school was constructed in 1930, and it wears its age everywhere… Fast-forward...
Advancing Equity for Women and Girls, News
IRVING MAYOR BETH VAN DUYNE ENCOURAGES YOUNG WOMEN TO ASPIRE Serves as panelist at the 2013 Ignite Political Power in Every Young Woman Conference March 12, 2013 (IRVING, TEXAS)— Irving Mayor Beth Van Duyne discussed her career path with young women Saturday during...
Advancing Equity for Women and Girls, News
Excerpt from The Dallas Morning News article Thursday is the Day of the Girl, established by the U.N. General Assembly last year and designated locally by Dallas County commissioners earlier this week — at the request of the girls in the group, Ignite Texas. Women...
Improving Educational Outcomes for Children in Public Schools, News
Blended learning is any time a student learns at least in part at a supervised brick-and-mortar location away from home and at least in part through online delivery with some element of student control over time, place, path, and/or pace. Michael Horn and Heather...
Improving Educational Outcomes for Children in Public Schools, News
Excerpts from The Dallas Morning News Article But despite the rough start, the team made it through seven rounds of Wednesday’s celebrity spelling bee, which raised $75,000 for DISD’s Reading Partners tutoring program. Mayor Mike Rawlings’ team made it through only...
Advancing Equity for Women and Girls, News
SMU & Boone Foundation Oversee Cutting-Edge Education Project TEXAS PROFESSORS TO STUDY HUMAN RIGHTS AND APPLY HUMANITARIAN FOCUSES TO VARIETY OF DISCIPLINES DALLAS (SMU) — Six Texas professors have been named 2012 fellows for the Texas Project for Human...
