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McKinney Boyd Engineering Students’ Living Legacy

by | Feb 11, 2016
The living roof project is a solution, providing McKinney Boyd’s engineering club the opportunity for a hands on approach to learning –- one that puts classroom concepts into engaged learning with the community. The project has also given the young scholars exposure to professional engineers and paved inroads to future careers in the STEM fields.
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How Dallas May Give Form to Innovation in Education
by | Feb 10, 2016
Written in 1985, the essays in "Imagining Dallas" evoked images of the city’s formation and evolution, its good ol’ myths as well as possible futures for the ever-aspirational Dallas, Texas. Leaders from a variety of disciplines, including Wick Allison, James Pratt, Robert Sardello, and Dr. Gail Thomas, contributed to the thoughtful book but it is the great educator Dr. Louise Cowan’s chapter that informed my perception of Dallas with a new civic sense of education and responsibility.
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Researcher’s Book Offers New Hope in Cancer Research
by | Feb 9, 2016
We connected with Dr. Theodora Ross, author of A Cancer in the Family, on why she came to DFW, UT Southwestern’s work in cancer genetics, and for her thoughts on how we can battle cancer more effectively.
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Dr. Theodora Ross
UT Southwestern Doctor Fights Cancer With Genetics
by | Feb 9, 2016
At any given moment, thirteen million people in the United States have cancer. For each of those thirteen million, there are family members who are wondering: Is this cancer part of a pattern? Does cancer run in my family? Am I at risk?
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North Texas Now Has Three Carnegie Research 1 Institutions

by | Feb 4, 2016
Recent rankings show strong improvement in UNT, UTA, and UTD in research productivity.
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Dr. Bobby Lyle and Dr. Duncan MacFarlane, SMU's first Bobby B. Lyle Centennial Chair in Engineering Entrepreneurship. Photo by Hillsman S. Jackson/SMU.
SMU Announces New Chair in Engineering Entrepreneurship
by | Feb 3, 2016
The announcement is a spark that will light many young entrepreneurs’ dreams for inventing, creating, and starting businesses.
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Every Student in the United States Should Be Learning the Entrepreneurial Mindset
by | Feb 2, 2016
Because the entrepreneurial mindset refers to an individual’s ability to turn ideas into action, and is a key competence for everyone.
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Vicente Lopez, Mayel Valadez, Keni Ramirez
Uplift Education Uses Data To Go Beyond the Tests
by | Jan 25, 2016
Taking cues from the healthcare industry, the leadership at the charter school developed a way to meaningfully use student, teacher, and parent data.
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SMU Luminary Awards Celebrate Educational Innovations

by | Jan 21, 2016
The Annette Caldwell Simmons School of Education and Human Development at Southern Methodist University holds its 2016 Simmons Luminary Awards.
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Fixing Our Bilingual Teacher Shortage Crisis
by | Jan 21, 2016
The answer lies in our children.
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Real-World Schooling
by | Jan 19, 2016
My big idea is that we set up internship programs and offer more job readiness classes in high schools throughout Dallas-Fort Worth.
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The Power of Convening Spurs Innovation
by | Jan 15, 2016
Communities and organizations that understand the power of convening are among the most innovative.
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School District Transformation, From the Ground Up

by | Jan 6, 2016
School administration within Dallas ISD is learning to let go.
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TxACE at UT Dallas is Creating a Pathway for New Breath Analysis Technology
by | Jan 5, 2016
Researchers at the Texas Analog Center of Excellence (TxACE) are working to make blood tests a thing of the past, as they seek to replace painful pin pricks with easy and affordable breath analysis through a technology referred to as the programmable electronic nose.
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Gunnar Rawlings
Why We Should Rethink the Way We Address Our Teachers
by | Jan 4, 2016
Teaching should not be a noble cause or a community service project. Teaching is a career.
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Cypress Waters: Educating for the Future
by | Jan 1, 2016

This package was originally published in Dallas-Fort Worth Real Estate Review.

Students at Coppell ISD’s newest school, Richard J. Lee Elementary, are guaranteed to get an education experience unlike any other in North Texas....

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