The San Antonio Writing Project will host a San Antonio Missions Camp Writing Marathon at the Missions Branch Library (3134 Roosevelt Ave.) and Mission San Jose at 10 a.m. on Saturday, May 2. The event is open to the public.

The UTSA Student Leadership Center (SLC) has selected student Tracy De Leon as its SLC Roadrunner of the Month. Sally Crouser, senior administrative associate for the UTSA Special Events Center, nominated DeLeon for the award.

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.

Karla Broadus    |    Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching

Most of the time, we learn only gradually, incrementally building connections between actions or events and outcomes. But there are exceptions--every once in a while, something happens and we immediately learn to associate that stimulus with a result. Scientists have discovered that uncertainty in terms of the causal relationship -- whether an outcome is actually caused by a particular stimulus -- is the main factor in determining whether or not rapid learning occurs.

The growth in the number of English language learners in US schools is placing new burdens on teachers who may not have the training to help these students. A new writing curriculum shows it helps teachers improve literacy skill building in elementary students.

About one in 14 toddlers diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder no longer met the diagnostic criteria in elementary school, but most continued to have emotional/behavior symptoms and required special education supports, according to a new study.

Question: What do Cal Tech, Concord’s Community College in New Hampshire, MIT, Carleton College in Minnesota, Lee College in Texas, and Pueblo Community College in Colorado, all have in common?

Open up the newspaper or turn on the news these days, and you'll find plenty of talk about race and racism. But it's a different story in many classrooms.

On the first day of school, perhaps the only person more discussed than the "new kid" is the "new kid who skipped a grade." Words like "gifted," "brilliant" and "genius" get thrown around to describe these students. Education researchers generally refer to them as "accelerated." It's a catch-all term to describe students who have either entered kindergarten early, grade-skipped or taken single subjects above grade level.

A high school English teacher in Texas who works with students facing poverty and traumas related to their immigration to the United States on Monday was named the 2015 National Teacher of the Year.

A Texas A&M Galveston professor has failed every student in his strategic management class, berating them via email as a disgrace to the school. KPRC television station in Houston reports that Irwin Horwitz sent the email Thursday informing them of their failing grades and saying he’ll no longer teach the class.

The San Antonio Independent School District is preparing to make an offer to one of two finalists for the job as the new superintendent.