A version of this story ran in the September 2013 issue. Forty years after NASA canceled its Apollo 20 mission to the moon, Houston’s school district reclaimed the name for a new program with even ...
During Saturday’s tutoring session for 6th to 8th graders at Ryan Middle School, students were first asked to fill out a multiplication grid table going from 1 times 1 on up. Claudia J. “Coach” ...
Eleven HISD elementary schools will be added to the Apollo-20 turnaround initiative. The program began last fall at nine middle and high schools. It involves several key strategies to help struggling ...
Apollo 20 reforms put in place at Houston ISD’s lowest-performing schools significantly reduced the achievement gap in math and resulted in positive gains in reading, according to a final analysis by ...
Houston is home to some of the most innovative educational concepts in the U.S. The Houston Independent School District itself has pioneered several initiatives, with many of its schools becoming ...
The schools, all elementaries, are: Blackshear, Davila, Frost, Grimes, Highland Heights, Isaacs, Kelso, Robinson, Scarborough, Tinsley, and Walnut Bend. The proposal ...
Houston ain't Harvard, as Roland Fryer no doubt realized when the esteemed Ivy League economist put his name and his reputation on the line in an untested bid to save the city's worst schools from ...
The Apollo spaceflight program lasted from 1961 to 1972. Apollo 11 was Neil Armstrong's famous first step. Apollo 17 was the last manned mission to the moon. In all, 20 Apollo flights were planned but ...
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