JoAnn Browning, dean of The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) College of Engineering, and Betty Merchant, dean of the College of Education and Human Development, have received a five-year $223,072 National Science Foundation grant to collaboratively reinvent higher education teaching methods in UTSA classes where the material has proved difficult for many engineering students.

The Office of Teacher Education Services and the College of Education and Human Development inducted more than 200 students teachers into the profession of teaching during a special ceremony on Monday, November 30 on the UTSA Main Campus.

A blog for World AIDS Day on Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis by Dr. Phillip Schnarrs, assistant professor in the Department of Kinesiology, Health, and Nutrition.

A blog for Psychology Today by Dr. Thelma Duffey, professor and chair of the Department of Counseling and president of the American Counseling Association.

Stephanie Dreis, Michael Fitzsimmons, Michael Russo    |    Counseling

International Society of Neurofeedback and Research

Unidos Dual Language Charter School in Clayton County, Georgia is in the flight path of Atlanta’s airport. It looks like a growing number of America’s public schools: it’s a little rundown, and its students are brown — a little more than half African-American, just less than half Latino. Ninety percent are on free or reduced lunch.

For decades, psychologists cautioned against raising children bilingual. They warned parents and teachers that learning a second language as a child was bad for brain development. But recent studies have found exactly the opposite. Researchers now believe that when people learn another language, they develop cognitive advantages that improve their attention, self-control and ability to deal with conflicting information.

The U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey shows growth in college degrees. The U.S. Census Bureau released a trove of new data Thursday from the American Community Survey. Among the findings: In 2014, 30 percent of adults 25 and older had a bachelor’s degree or higher. That’s up from about 28 percent five years earlier. For the first time, women were more likely to have a bachelor’s degree than men. https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/

In December of 2012, Obama signed into law a federal student debt relief plan called Pay As You Earn — PAYE for short. As he suggested in his speech, it limits your monthly payment to 10 percent of your discretionary income.

It's almost a decade overdue, but the U.S. House of Representatives is scheduled to vote later today on a bill to replace the No Child Left Behind law.

"Will it scale?" is often the first thing we ask about an educational innovation. Two innovators argue that it's the wrong question.