Suicide: Desensitization and the "Doctrine of Can't"

            For the fourth time in a little more than four months a student attending California's Palo Alto High School has committed suicide. The most recent occurrence was carried out by jumping in front of...

Anna Eastman, Charter Schools, and Older Workers

When a candidate runnning for office receives financial and tactical support from an interest group, it is certainly fair to ask them how they feel about standard practices of that group. The same corporate executives who fund expansion of the KIPP and YES PREP Charter...

Houston ISD high school outperforms KIPP Academy

  On the 2009 Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS) exam, the Houston Independent School District's internal charter school, East Early College High School, outperformed students from the the KIPP Houston High School. Both schools received exemplary ratings...

Back to the 50's: Businessmen try to capture Houston school baord

Enron may have fallen, and the Bush/Cheney administration has left Washington in a hurry, but one group of second-generation Houston business titans are flexing their muscle on their own homegrown, seeking to reshape local public education in their own image. These...

Alma Lara speaks from depth of experience about school reform

The following is the part of a conversation I had with Ms. Alma L. Lara, candidate for Houston Independent School District Board of Trustees in District 1, in the north-central area of Houston.   You came to Houston at a young age. Alma Lara: Age nine. I...

Anna Eastman campaign divides Obama coalition

All politics are local, and that is especially true for Hispanic candidates in Texas, where the white conservative majority determines the outcome of statewide elections, leaving only select local elections winnable by Hispanic contenders. While Hispanics make up the...

Sentinel-3 ESA’s Next Generation Satellite Scheduled to Launch in

Sentinel-3 satellite which is scheduled to launch in 2013 is the third in a series of five space missions European Space Agency (ESA) is developing for the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) initiative. The missions main objective is to determine the...

North Forest High School Lockdown, Guns on Campus Lead to Arrests

North Forest High School in Houston, Texas was put on lockdown for three hours on September 25, 2009 after reports that three to four males had arrived on campus armed with guns. Witnesses claim that they saw three to four armed males drive toward North Forest High School in...

Lockdown at a Houston Texas High School After Shooting

North Forest High School is located in the northeastern section of Houston, Texas. In a developing news story, it is the scene of a lockdown after an individual accompanied by three other individuals randomly fired an AK 47 in the air in the school. There were people who...