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Good School Buildings, Good Experiences
Building Solutions, a national real estate advisor for facility assessments, has seen its fair share of school buildings in the 30 years its been in business - and to celebrate that milestone, they're going to help 30 different schools.
Happenings on the Hill
Still need a gift for the die-hard SMU football fan with expensive tastes?
Hitzelberger, Michaels Not Seeking Reelection in HPISD
The Highland Park ISD Board of Trustees will get some new faces in late spring after two longtime trustees announced that they wouldn’t seek reelection to their seats.
Coronavirus
What Does Pandemic Schooling Look Like in a Biden Administration?
There has been a lot of discussion around education policy and where that intersects with the pandemic - but will things change once President-elect Joe Biden takes office?
AT&T PAC Gets Dallas ISD Superintendent’s Award
The Dallas Independent School District awarded its highest honor, the 2020 Superintendent’s Award to the nonprofit AT&T Performing Arts Center last month.
SMU To Honor Grads In Outdoor Commencement
More than 500 candidates from SMU's undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs will be honored at the December commencement convocation at 1 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 19.
Greenhill Senior One of the Heroes for Children
For Greenhill High School senior Carter Weinstein, thankfulness looks like service – service to families battling childhood cancer.
Happenings on the Hill
Three artworks debuted this fall in Dallas as the first iteration of “Healing Pieces: Offerings of Art, Expression, and Nature.”
Dallas ISD Wins Accolade for Reducing Carbon Footprint
With so many campuses - and many of them quite old - its no mean feat to win an award for energy efficiency.
Boy Scout Troop 125 Introduces New Eagles
Eight more Boy Scouts from Troop 125, sponsored by Grace Bible Church, have achieved the rank of Eagle, the highest and most distinguished rank in Scouting:
Three Money Skills All Teens Need
When high schoolers head off to college, they are taking a big step towards independence and adulthood. During this transition, they will need to figure out how to live on their own and make their own decisions.
Coronavirus
TEA: No A-F Ratings for a Second Year
It's not the canceling of the State of Texas Assessment of Academic Readiness (or STAAR) that some have asked for, but the Texas Education Agency announced Thursday that it was pumping the breaks on the A-F ratings for a second year.
Coronavirus
Hockamasks Help Refugees
A couple of Hockaday School students responded to the pandemic by creating a nonprofit and giving it a four-word name that tells perhaps half its story.
SMU Dedicates Gerald J. Ford Hall for Research and Innovation
SMU Dec. 4 dedicated the Gerald J. Ford Hall for Research and Innovation, a new 50,000-square-foot interdisciplinary research hub meant to help equip faculty, students, and industry partners with tools and resources to collaborate, solve complex problems, and power new enterprises in the digital world.
Boy Scout Troop 125 Introduces New Eagles
Eight more Boy Scouts from Troop 125, sponsored by Grace Bible Church, have achieved the rank of Eagle, the highest and most distinguished rank in Scouting:
Coronavirus
Dallas Education Foundation Wraps Up Wild Year, Kicks Off Annual Campaign
It’s been a wild year for the reborn Dallas Education Foundation. When it re-launched after dormancy in 2019, nobody could imagine that just a few weeks later, a tornado would immediately spur the organization into action quickly to help the Dallas ISD schools impacted by it.
Election
HPHS Senior Finds Learning Opportunities in 2020 Election
Historically, young Americans have tended toward less political involvement than older generations seen consistently at the polls.
Coronavirus
A Deeper Dive Into COVID Learning Loss
Learning during a pandemic - with mass shutdowns of schools and inequities to access to everything from instructional supports to broadband internet - is uncharted territory.
2021 National Merit Semifinalists: How Many Does Your School Have?
The nonprofit National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC), established in 1955, named approximately 16,000 semifinalists in the 66th annual National Merit Scholarship Program.
Coronavirus
Learning Gains Looking Distant As Pandemic Hits Dallas ISD Hard
What happens when a global pandemic hits your city, and students leave for spring break and just never come back?