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Master Teacher Monday is a series highlighting educators who have earned the designation of ‘master teacher’ through Texas’ Teacher Incentive Allotment (TIA). TIA encourages school [...]
Early each March, educators, policymakers, and students from across the country gather in Austin to discuss the future of education. SXSW EDU is a yearly [...]
Today, the Commit Partnership, the Texas Association of Community Colleges, the Texas Business Leadership Council, and the Texas Community College Student Advisory Council signaled their [...]
High-impact tutoring (HIT), as described in the above video, outpaces other learning interventions – the average effect of this kind of tutoring program on academic [...]
Each month, we highlight an educator who has earned the designation of ‘Master Teacher’ through Texas’ Teacher Incentive Allotment (TIA). TIA encourages school districts to [...]
The Commit Partnership applauds the 117 Texas school systems recently approved by the Texas Education Agency (TEA) to implement the Teacher Incentive Allotment (TIA), an [...]
Master Teacher Monday is a series highlighting educators who have earned the designation of ‘master teacher’ through Texas’ Teacher Incentive Allotment (TIA). TIA encourages school [...]
This video follows a recent poll that shows 74% of North Texans support the state’s current system of assigning an A-F letter grade for [...]
In Texas, two-thirds of families have all parents in the household working, and therefore need reliable child care. However, nearly half of Texans live in [...]
In our interactive dashboard, each public school campus in the state is represented by a dot, with the size of the dot corresponding to the [...]
The hard work, dedication, and planning of so many – including students – is paying off for Dallas ISD. The district made college, career, and [...]
At the beginning of last school year, 46 schools across Dallas ISD implemented the Additional Days School Year (or ADSY), an opportunity to increase instructional [...]