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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Critical Social Studies Teacher Education in Anti-Critical Times
(Texas Education Review, 2022)Politicized culture war struggles in the third decade of the 21st century increasingly result in Republican-controlled state legislatures passing education policies which inhibit democratic citizenship education in social ... -
"It's Only Right That You Should Play the Way You Feel It:" Examining the Fleeting Emotions of Preservice Teachers' Navigation of Critical Historical Inquiry
(Texas Education Review, 2022)This study contributes to existing literature on critical historical inquiry used in the social studies field. Furthering the research, this qualitative study examines the emotional navigation of five preservice teachers ... -
The Fear of Harm: The Challenges Preservice Urban Teachers Have with Historical Perspective Recognition when Discussing Difficult Histories
(Texas Education Review, 2022)This qualitative case study examined five preservice social studies teachers (PSSTs) working in an urban teacher preparation program as they learned methods of critical historical inquiry (CHI). Moving from a critical ... -
"The Work of Art is a Scream of Freedom'': The Power of Multimodal Arts and Humanities in Teaching Marginalized Histories
(Texas Education Review, 2022)This qualitative case-study looks at how one preservice teacher uses multimodal counter-storytelling to push back on dominant historical narratives in social studies teaching. It examines how the teacher conceptualizes the ... -
Creating an International Collaborative MOOC on University Social Responsibility
(Texas Education Review, 2022)In 2018 the universities in the University Social Responsibility Network (USRN) embarked on the ambitious project of creating a collaborative Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), aiming to raise awareness of the concept of ... -
The Research-Practice Divide Is Not Only an Issue of Communication, but of Values: The Case of Growth Mindset
(Texas Education Review, 2022)The research-practice divide between social scientists and educators is a persistent problem for the accurate communication and translation of social scientific research into pedagogical practice. This paper uses mindset ... -
Foreword: The Texas 87th Legislative Session
(Texas Education Review, 2021)Foreword to the Texas Education Review Special Issue on the Texas 87th State Legislative Session. Details the inspiration for the issue, methodologies, and the central concern of authentic assessments in Texas educational ... -
Out of the Classroom and Less Likely to Graduate: The Relationship Between Exclusionary Discipline and Four-Year Graduation Rates in Texas
(Texas Education Review, 2021)Exclusionary discipline has been a topic of focus for Texas lawmakers in recent legislative sessions. While studies show the negative impact of exclusionary discipline on students, few explore how children who enter ... -
Establishing Equity: Aligning Dual Language Bilingual Education to HB3 Sec. 11.185 Texas Early Childhood Literacy & Mathematics Proficiency Plans
(Texas Education Review, 2021)This policy brief provides recommendations that address dual language bilingual education and House Bill 3 (HB3) Texas Early Childhood Literacy & Mathematics Proficiency Plans requirement. How can the HB3 Texas Early ... -
The Testing Industrial Complex: Texas and Beyond
(Texas Education Review, 2021)The Testing Industrial Complex (TIC) is a system (and at the same time a cycle) in which high-stakes standardized testing fuels neoliberal education reforms and vice versa. These “reforms” and cycles have monetized for ... -
Shooting for the STAAR: An Authentic Assessment Pilot Proposal to Replace Inequitable High-Stakes Accountability
(Texas Education Review, 2021)This brief is organized into four (4) main sections. We first discuss the inadequacy, inefficacy, and bias of standardized, high-stakes assessments. These assessments do not deliver on promises made by proponents and that ... -
Special Education Eligibility Identification Rates in Texas: A Comparative Analysis of Rural and Urban School Districts
(Texas Education Review, 2020)Special education policy impacts education equity. More specifically, special education policy surrounding the identification of students with disabilities and the provision of instructional support services to students ... -
Exploring Students’ Endorsement Enrollment in Texas Public High Schools
(Texas Education Review, 2020)To support youth early motivation for college and careers that meet workforce needs, the Texas Legislature in 2013 passed House Bill 5 to adopt a new high school graduation program, which allows students to pursue ... -
Fear in the Classroom: Campus Carry at the University of Texas at Austin
(Texas Education Review, 2020)This article examines the significance of fear of concealed handguns in the classroom at a public university in Texas, analyzing perceived changes in shared social space and the collective learning environment in terms of ... -
Yes, Black Lives Still Matter and Politics-free Schools are a Myth
(Texas Education Review, 2020)Attempts to support and affirm the lives and contributions of Black people have been consistently attacked and deemed “divisive and un-American.” As the nation recently erupted in protests against racial injustice, K-12 ... -
(D)riven by neoliberalism: Exploring alternative purposes for higher education
(Texas Education Review, 2020)The value of a degree. Social mobility. Job placement rates. Return on investment. These concepts permeate both the news media and academic discourse about higher education credentials. From provosts to presidents, students ... -
The State of School Segregation in Texas and the Factors Associated with It
(Texas Education Review, 2020)Brown v. Board of Educ. (1954) officially ended legal (de jure) segregation, but desegregation outcomes overall fell short of this nation’s ideals of equality and justice. As a result, children of color suffer. The purpose ... -
Using the Technology Acceptance Model to Analyze K-12 Students’ Behavioral Intention to Use Augmented Reality in Learning
(Texas Education Review, 2020)Augmented reality (AR) has gained popularity in K-12 education in the past decades; researchers and educators generally agree that AR is a useful pedagogical tool in teaching because it is grounded on efficient teaching ... -
Are The Rich Getting Richer? How School District Wealth Predicts Website Traffic Expenditures
(Texas Education Review, 2020)Although considerable education research has focused on how K-12 school districts spend money, no extant literature has specifically examined how these districts invested in online endeavors, most notably website traffic ... -
Disrupting White Teacher Education
(Texas Education Review, 2020)Recognizing that K-12 and higher education spaces center Whiteness, the authors of this editorial invite other White teacher educator-scholars to disrupt the dominance of Whiteness in university-based teacher education and ...
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