Internationally acclaimed writer Carmen Tafolla has been named the 2015 Texas State Poet Laureate by the 84th Texas Legislature. Tafolla, an associate professor of practice with the UTSA College of Education and Human Development’s (COEHD) Department of Bicultural-Bilingual Studies, was officially invested as poet laureate at a special resolution ceremony for the induction of all Texas State Artists at the Texas State Capitol in Austin on May 7.

Nearly 200 graduate students from the College of Education and Human Development (COEHD) will graduate from the university on Saturday, May 9. Twenty of these graduate students will receive their doctoral degree, marking the college’s largest graduating doctoral class.

Meet Angelica Tello. As a first-generation college student from an underprivileged family, Tello faced obstacles throughout her academic career. But she overcame them to earn a doctoral degree in counselor education and supervision. Now she is eager to help students who face similar challenges.

More than 700 COEHD students are eligible to graduate from the university on Saturday, May 9.

Karla Broadus    |    Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching

San Antonio is home to three of the eight Texas State Artists for 2015 and ’16. The honorary positions were announced on Wednesday. Carmen Tafolla will be the 2015 poet laureate, and Vincent Valdez will be the Texas state two-dimensional artist.

In an effort to help teachers educate their students, a new report from the American Psychological Association outlines the 20 most important psychological concepts that can enhance elementary and secondary teaching and learning and offers tips on how to apply them in the classroom.

An Austrian men's magazine is confronting the stigma around HIV head-on by using HIV-positive blood in its latest edition.

An outbreak of chlamydia at a high school in Texas has forced administrators there to send a warning note home to parents. The station estimates 1 in 15 students at the school has contracted chlamydia.

The number of Latinos in America’s schools is rising faster than any other group’s. And their share of the school population is rising fastest in the South. Many don’t speak English as their first language, making them “language-minorities.” And the question of how best to educate them is becoming crucial in places with relatively little practice or bilingual history – places like Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee. So WBHM is kicking off a four-part series on language-minority education in the South. In Part One, we cross the border (into Georgia) to see an innovative school and a counterintuitive concept in action.

The Hazelwood Act is a program to give Texas veterans up to 150 hours of free in-state higher education. Since 2009, their dependents, such as their kids, are also allowed to take advantage of getting up to 150 hours free. Senate Bill 1735, that could change that.

President Obama welcomes the National Teacher of the Year and tells how a great educator shaped his own life.

This year, we're reporting on the dramatic changes to the New Orleans school system, where more than nine out of 10 children attend charter schools.

The crowded and fast-growing district is facing a severe teacher shortage.

If Las Vegas built nearly 3 dozen new schools tomorrow, they would all be filled to capacity immediately.

Reports of sex offenses on college campuses provided to the Education Department have nearly doubled over a five-year period.