Bush Elementary School first grade student Lukah Coca practices his letter sounds while following along with a structured literacy video lesson from his teacher Katie Meadows. The lessons help allow ...

A new superintendent is trying to improve Houston’s public schools through strictly structured teaching. The district says it’s working. Many educators and parents hate it. By Troy Closson and J.

Carries creates recipes for her cookbook, which is difficult because she never uses them! Carries creates recipes for her next cookbook, which is difficult because she never uses recipes! She also ...

HOUSTON — The Houston public school classroom might have looked like any other, if not for an unusual feature on the whiteboard: A countdown timer. The teacher leading the English lesson allowed her ...