Education

Even though Berenice Gonzalez’s kids weren’t zoned to Neff Elementary, she “heard great things about it,” so she transferred them there and wasn't disappointed. Even during online COVID school, Neff teachers did tutorials to “go through it with each and every kid.” Gonzalez thinks that Neff’

At 2:30 PM on Friday, five Sharpstown High students in black shirts gathered behind a brownish-orange shed next to the La Michoacana just across Bissonnet St from their school. Three didn’t speak English, but one, sporting a faint mustache, said he wasn’t in school because classes are

Leer en español When Texas A&M graduate Kristina Samuel picked Sharpstown High last June for her first full-time teaching job, it was a different school. The state of Texas had just announced it was taking over HISD, but she didn’t think it would affect her new workplace—

“Don’t write a story with pink,” quips Dr. Randy Wilson. One of his students, a young woman with black hair, does anyway. It's Tuesday, March 5, and four groups of Wilson’s Western Civilization I students are scribbling facts and ideas with multicolored markers on two whiteboards

Dr. Marian Zaki remembers being shocked when her 4th grader in Fort Bend ISD came home with worksheets and no textbook. Where was she supposed to find information to help her daughter understand the problems? “The internet,” said her daughter’s teacher. It was difficult to find solid, relevant, age-appropriate