The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) has received gifts and pledges of $180 million dollars in its inaugural capital campaign, We Are UTSA – A Top-Tier Campaign, exceeding its original goal by more than $60 million. Launched in 2009, the capital campaign’s initial goal was $120 million to support student scholarships, faculty and research initiatives, campus activities and community outreach programs. In early 2013, the university surpassed that goal and, with two years left in the campaign, set and exceeded a new goal of $175 million.

The Texas Language Education Research Conference (TexLER) is now accepting proposals for the annual conference on February 19-20, 2016. This is an annual conference that brings together researchers, educators, and students in the fields of foreign language education, TEFL/TESL (Teaching English as a Foreign or Second Language), linguistics, and applied linguistics.

David Thompson    |    Educational Leadership and Policy Studies

Texas Council of Professors of Educational Administrators

John B. King Jr., who will take over for Arne Duncan in December, isn’t well known in higher-ed circles. But his track record offers some clues about how he will lead the Education Department.

Two national civil rights organizations filed papers in federal court on Tuesday that accuse the Texas Education Agency and two local independent school districts, Southwest and North East ISDs, of not effectively monitoring, implementing, enforcing and supervising programs for English-language learners, or ELLs.

Many Americans struggle with questions over what makes a healthy diet: skim or whole milk? Lean meat or no meat at all? Is there such a thing as “good fat”?

Many Americans struggle with questions over what makes a healthy diet: skim or whole milk? Lean meat or no meat at all? Is there such a thing as “good fat”?

A report released Wednesday offers an unflattering snapshot of the state of urban education. The University of Washington’s Center on Reinventing Public Education looked at school improvement and educational opportunity across all schools in 50 cities and found that performance is basically flat.

John King Jr. is Arne Duncan's deputy and was New York's education commissioner before heading to Washington. Like the man he's replacing, he's no stranger to controversy.

It will get harder for Texas public school students to pass standardized tests this year, Texas Education Commissioner Michael Williams announced Tuesday, but the state will ease into the tougher passing standards more slowly than originally planned.

Waking up early on a Saturday. Sharpened No. 2 pencils and a calculator. For teenagers headed to a four-year college, taking a standardized entrance exam such as the ACT and SAT is typically a requirement. But it's far from a universal experience. In 50 of the largest U.S. cities, examined in a new report from the University of Washington, Bothell's nonpartisan Center on Reinventing Public Education, fewer than 1 in 3 students takes either of those tests in a given year.

The publisher of one of Texas’ controversial social studies textbooks has agreed to change a caption that describes African slaves as immigrant “workers” after a Houston-area mother’s social media complaint went viral over the weekend.

The Sam Houston State University Department of History is hosting an appearance for the Texas Poet Laureate, Carmen Tafolla on October 7th at the Woodlands campus and October 8th on the main campus at 11 a.m. in Academic Building IV room 202. As the state Laureate Tafolla is required to service the various communities throughout Texas, which is what brings her to Sam Houston State University. Carmen Tafolla is the current Texas Poet Laureate; she is an associate professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio, and additionally has written short stories, children’s books, one volume of non-fiction, five books of poetry, and seven screenplays.

The University of Texas at San Antonio President Ricardo Romo is expected to announce during his State of the University address later today that the university has raised $180 million in its inaugural capital campaign.