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UT’s Stephen Russell Is Advancing LGBT Student Civil Rights

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“Please choose one of the following: male, female, unknown.” It’s a variation of a question everyone has come across at some point in their lives while filling...

 
 

Restoring Order

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A new disciplinary method is keeping kids in school with a solution that sounds startlingly simple: talking it out. Picture this: 10-year-old Ben trips his classmate....

 
 

Condoleezza Rice Discusses Iraq War on the Forty Acres

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Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice faced a frank question last night while addressing a full house at the LBJ Library’s Lady Bird Auditorium. Joshua...

 
 

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Frontier U

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 In 1958, during the height of the Cold War, University of Texas Provost Harry Ransom wrote of a “counterfrontier” that challenged the stereotypical image...

 
 

UT’s Dana Center Urges Overhaul of Remedial Education

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Half of all U.S. undergraduates and 70 percent of all community college students start college without being academically ready and require remedial courses to...

 
 

Educating the Next Einstein

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UTeach, a program that helps students obtain both their bachelor’s degree and teaching certificate in four years, was featured in a segment on NBC last week...

 
 

Higher Ed Makes Headlines at Conference on the Forty Acres

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UT’s campus became the epicenter of Texas public policy debates over the weekend as the Forty Acres hosted the second-annual Texas Tribune Festival. The conference—the...

 
 

College Degrees Keep the Doctor Away

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Everyone knows that a college degree can help you get a better job. But what about lengthening your life? Jennifer Karas Montez, PhD ’11, and UT sociologists Robert...

 
 

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Reading, Writing, & Revolution

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You’ve never taken a flipped class, but your kids and grandkids will. In this learning revolution, homework and classwork are being switched, teachers are...

 
 
UT Education Dean Honored with Endowed Chair

UT Education Dean Honored with Endowed Chair

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UT’s College of Education honored its dean, Manuel J. Justiz, on Friday by presenting him with the Manuel J. Justiz Endowed Chair in Math, Science, and Technology...

 
 
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