Texas administered the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness to high school students. These figures display how well the school as a whole performed in reading, mathematics, and science. 100% 75% 50% 25% 0 100% 75% 50% 25% 0 10 30 40 28 55 60...
now Texas State University, and accepted a teaching job at Welhausen School to help cover his tuition expenses. He was one of five teachers and taught mathematics and history to 29 fifth, sixth and seventh graders. He was shocked at the poverty he saw and how little many...
Johnson ran as an anti-civil rights candidate yet actively worked for Afro-American voter support throughout the state. The interaction with Texas Afro-Americans in their early years of participation in the Democratic primary process sheds light on Johnson's attitudes toward minorities during the ...
Back in Texas, he was Richard Nixon. Mr. Caro said his feelings about Mr. Johnson have always been "mixed." So have mine. As this book opens, Johnson is the big, bullying Democratic leader of the U.S. Senate, the most powerful figure that office has ever known, and he is ...
LBJ Student Center at Texas State University in San Marcos Reception with Dinner and Wine! Silent Auction! Esteemed Speakers! Please email director@lbjmuseum.com For Exciting Sponsorship Opportunities! 22nd Annual Ted Breihan Memorial Golf Tournament ...
Died: January 22, 1973, in Stonewall, Texas Education: Southwest Texas State Teachers College (BS, 1930), studied law at Georgetown University from 1934–1935 Spouse: Claudia Alta "Lady Bird" Taylor (1912–2007) Children: Lynda Bird Johnson (b. 1944), Luci Baines Johnson (b. 1947) ...
Texas Slate University-San ManosMary C. Brennan LBJ's American Promise: The VotingRights Address. By Garth E. Pauley. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2007. Pp. 1 90. Illustration, notes, bibliography, index . ISBN 1-58544-574-6. $29.95, cloth; ISBN 1-58544-581-9. $...
Roosevelt build the modern American state and a progressive political coalition that seemed invincible. These junior officers of the New Deal numbered among their favorite members of Congress the young Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas. For thirty years, through LBJ's own presidency, they functioned as ...