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Education
McKinney Boyd Engineering Students’ Living Legacy
by Patrick Kobler | 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.
by Melanie Ferguson |
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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by Patrick Kobler |
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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by Patrick Kobler |
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 Geoffrey Orsak | Feb 4, 2016
Recent rankings show strong improvement in UNT, UTA, and UTD in research productivity.
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by Patrick Kobler |
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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by Michael Sherrod |
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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by Patrick Kobler |
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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The Annette Caldwell Simmons School of Education and Human Development at Southern Methodist University holds its 2016 Simmons Luminary Awards.
SMU Luminary Awards Celebrate Educational Innovations
by Patrick Kobler | 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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by Lynn McBee |
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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by Joe D. May |
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 Mike Koprowski | Jan 6, 2016
School administration within Dallas ISD is learning to let go.
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by Patrick Kobler |
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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by Gunnar Rawlings |
Jan 4, 2016
Teaching should not be a noble cause or a community service project. Teaching is a career.
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by Hilary Lau |
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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