Texas Education Review
The Texas Education Review is an independent, peer reviewed, student-run scholarly publication based at the College of Education at The University of Texas at Austin.
From Sweatt v. Painter and No Child Left Behind, to charter schools, curriculum policy, and textbook adoption, the State of Texas has played and will continue to play a critical role in shaping education policy in the United States.
The Texas Education Review (TxEd) is located directly on The University of Texas’s campus in the heart of downtown Austin. Its close proximity to the Texas Capitol, Texas Education Agency, and State Board of Education offers unparalleled access to the thought leaders, policy makers, and academics who are driving education policy in Texas. TxEd focuses on analysis of education policy and related issues, with non-exclusive preference given to issues affecting the State of Texas.
TxEd was founded and is operated by PhD students at The University of Texas at Austin’s College of Education, which consistently ranks as one of the best public university graduate education programs in the U.S.
Recent Submissions
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Web (In)Accessible: Supporting Access to Texas Higher Education for Students with Disabilities
(Texas Education Review, 2019)Beginning January 18, 2018, Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act required all U.S. postsecondary institutions receiving Title IV funds to publish accessible websites, adherent to Level AA Web Content Accessibility Guidelines ... -
Using Literacy to Enact Critical Pedagogy and Scientific Inquiry: An Analytic Literature Review
(Texas Education Review, 2019)Literacy is a powerful tool to engage students in learning about the social, cultural, political, and natural worlds around them. This is especially true within the discipline of science where students use reading and ... -
Advancing an (Im)Possible Alternative: Ethnic Studies in Neoliberal Times
(Texas Education Review, 2019)This conceptual paper examines the question of the political imaginary in the neoliberal moment, and the crucial role that Ethnic Studies can play in realizing critical pedagogy’s promise of emancipatory social transformation. ... -
Access to Dual Enrollment in the United States: Implications for Equity and Stratification
(Texas Education Review, 2019)Dual enrollment (DE) programs are on the rise nationally. This study uses recently available nationally representative data to examine which student and school characteristics predict participation in DE in the United ... -
Arming Teachers for School Safety: Providing Clarity for State Policies
(Texas Education Review, 2019)While there is an increased national focus on student safety and gun violence in schools, the policies for arming teachers are often vague and unclear. Additionally, policies and laws enforcing safety protocol for students ... -
Assurance of learning standards and scaling strategies to enable expansion of experiential learning courses in management education
(Texas Education Review, 2018)In today’s dynamic globalized business environment, management educators must develop pedagogies that support students to manage and lead in rapidly changing business contexts. An increasing number of institutions use ... -
A life-changing internship and the power of experiential learning
(Texas Education Review, 2018)Learning through experience is a powerful and important opportunity for undergraduate students. In this editorial, The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) President Greg Fenves details the short- and long-term ... -
Experiential learning and its impact on college students
(Texas Education Review, 2018)This article provides a review of relevant literature and theoretical frameworks that support the inclusion of experiential learning in higher education programs. A brief discussion of experiential learning types is included. ... -
The unknown and unemployed masses with disabilities in Trinidad and Tobago
(Texas Education Review, 2018)This article explores employment of persons with disabilities in the country of Trinidad and Tobago. Although the statistics regarding the employment of persons with disabilities in Trinidad and Tobago has not been gathered, ... -
Special education services available in Trinidad and Tobago
(Texas Education Review, 2018)This study was conducted to determine the extent to which publicly-funded special education services are available and accessible to students with disabilities in Trinidad and Tobago. Seventy participants completed a survey ... -
Education for some? The exploration of inclusive education in Trinidad and Tobago
(Texas Education Review, 2018)This paper illustrates the state of inclusive education within Trinidad and Tobago. We highlight that inclusive education is a part of the broader right to equality of persons with disabilities. Further, in spite of the ... -
Inclusion in Trinidad and Tobago: A dream in progress
(Texas Education Review, 2018)The issue of inclusion of persons with disabilities in the educational and employment sectors has been the subject of significant debate. As a result, this paper seeks to offer an overview of this issue in terms of current ... -
Texas House Bill 51—An incognito performance-based funding policy: Implications for access and equity in Texas
(Texas Education Review, 2018)This study focused on Texas House Bill 51 (TX HB 51) and its impact as a performance-based funding policy. Specifically, TX HB 51 incentivized regional comprehensive institutions towards high research activity in pursuit ... -
Theoretical starting points: The field of emerging research universities
(Texas Education Review, 2018)Efforts to prevent or persuade increased emphasis on academic research at state colleges and regional universities demonstrate how emerging fields of higher education can be influenced through various policies and incentives. ... -
Attack and Parry: An Examination of Gubernatorial Rhetoric and Agenda Setting for Higher Education in Texas, 2000-2015
(Texas Education Review, 2018)This paper applies political discourse analysis to an examination of gubernatorial rhetoric and agenda setting around higher education in Texas during Governor Rick Perry’s leadership, from 2000-2015. The authors analyzed ... -
Texas House Bill 51: A coercive isomorphic force on Texas’s regional comprehensive universities, a matter of access & equity
(Texas Education Review, 2018)This backgrounder details the scope of the following critical forum concerning Texas House Bill 51 (TX HB 51) of the 81st Legislature, also referred to as the emerging research university bill. In its totality the journal ... -
Suspendable and Expendable, Kicking Out and Throwing Away Black Girls: An Analysis of a School District’s Policies and Practices
(Texas Education Review, 2018)In United States school districts, Black girls experience exclusionary punishments at disproportionate rates, mainly because of discriminatory school policies enacted by educators who hold implicit bias. Although in recent ... -
When caring hurts: “Foreign” teachers in Texas bilingual classrooms
(Texas Education Review, 2018)As the U.S. teacher shortage continues to worsen, large, urban districts have turned to hiring teachers from abroad, including countries like Spain, Mexico, and the incorporated U.S. territory of Puerto Rico. However, ... -
Conexiones: Latino males’ sense of belonging in historically Black colleges and universities
(Texas Education Review, 2018)This qualitative study examined the perceptions of sense of belonging among ten Latino male students enrolled in two Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) in Texas. Through one-on-one interviews, the Latino ... -
The politics of educational (un)deservedness and (in)visibility: Examining economic justice issues in education
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