The Davidson Academy of Nevada,The School for the Talented and Gifted (TAG)in Texas andThe Early College at Guilfordin North Carolina – ranked in both the
What is Homeschooling? Homeschooling, simply put, is parent-directed education. While every state has a slightly different definition, parent involvement is the hallmark of homeschooling. The modernhomeschooling movementin the United States began in the 1970s, when parents who felt public schools f...
I learned “Big D” is the Manhattan of Texas. Arthur found a swanky Airbnb, booked dinner at Monarch Restaurant overlooking the city, and tickets for Shaun Martin jazz concert at the The Black Academy of Arts and Letters. The Airbnb forgot the sheets for the second bed, so we crammed...
The effects are quickly becoming very real. Multiple institutions have eliminated faculty and staff with DEI roles, sometimes by the dozens. TheUniversity of Texas at Austinis estimated by its faculty union to have fired about 60 people from DEI-related jobs, for instance. Other faculty are leav...
“APPSeCONNECT is fantastic, it works really well and is easy to use! Its visual interface makes it simple to see what’s happening, and I especially liked the visual mapping of process flows. The team’s professionalism also really impressed me.” ...
Learn what a C corporation is, how it works, and whether your business would benefit from this structure.
"Some of the rules that we set don't work, and it gets quite messy sometimes," Jordan Casey, a marine molecular ecologist at the University of Texas at Austin Marine Science Institute, told Live Science. "Humans inherently want to put order on things, and even I have to make...
The first digital camera is developed by Steven Sasson at Eastman Kodak, using a charge-coupled device (CCD) image sensor. 1981 Arthur Leonard Schawlow and Nicolaas Bloembergen win half the Nobel Prize in physics for their contribution to the development of laser spectroscopy. Kai M. Siegbahn is...
Dallas, Texas is another one of the US’s little pockets of chess culture. The University of Texas at Dallas, in particular, is one of the only colleges in the country that seems to take chess seriously. Not only do they have a chess team, but that team is actually good! This chess...
There has been a lot of debate over the Common Core since it was first adopted by many states in 2010. We’ll leave it up to you to decide if the Common Core is a good thing or not, but these are the basic arguments for and against the standards. ...