Texas Public Schools are failing many African-American students. While there are broad performance gaps between all student groups in Texas, African-American students have the lowest scores on TAAS and tests of college readiness.
Without a Shared Canon, We will Have No Republic
The new literature list currently being developed by the State Board of Education has the potential to reverse the crisis in higher literacy in Texas while teaching students a love of the history and culture that created our great nation. Opponents to the current plan, however, who mostly come from current educators and academia, reject...