Fall 2013: Volume 1
Introduction
Texas Education Review Editorial Board
Articles
William Powers, Jr., JD
Legislative Update – 83rd Texas Legislature
Representative Jimmie Don Aycock, DVM
Education: Key to Continuing the “Texas Miracle”
Representative Donna Howard, MA
The Barriers and Route to Texas School Finance Equity
Albert Kauffman, JD
Language Policy Insights: A New Hope for Educating Our Latino Population
Nancy Compean-Garcia, EdD & Samuel Garcia, EdD
Community, Home, and School Partnerships: A Critical Issue in Bilingual Education
Claudia Peralta, PhD
Improving Campus Climate: The Role of Social Justice
Connie T. Wolfe, PhD & Janine Kay Gwen Chi, PhD
Twenty Years of Charter Schools: What We’ve Learned
Mike Feinberg, MEd
Reframing the Refrain: Choice as a Civil Rights Issue
Julian Vasquez Heilig, PhD
“Learn by doing” with the Modern Textbook
Smita Bakshi, PhD, MBA
A Brief History of (EdTech) Time
Betsy Corcoran
Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught?
Robert Metcalfe, PhD
Tinker: A Doctrine Whose Time Has Gone
Jim Walsh, JD
Why Game Developers and Educators Need to Work Together
Jenn Bullard
James Paul Gee, PhD
Deconstructing Ogbu’s Acting White Thesis: An Africentric Critique
Kevin Cokley, PhD
From Problem to Prizewinners: Recalibrating Perspectives on Black Student Achievement
Richard Reddick, PhD
Skipping Away from Inanity: Towards a Whimsical Queering of Educational Policy
Catherine A. Lugg, PhD & Jason Murphy, EdM
K.C. Busch, MA & Jonathan Osborne, PhD
Lorenzo Esters, EdD & Ivory Toldson, PhD
Addressing the Teacher Quality Gap Before Making the Hiring Decision
Ebbie Parsons, III, EdD
Living the Legacies and Continuing the Struggle: Immigration, PreK-16 Education and Transnationalism
Michelle Knight, PhD
Peter McLaren, PhD