Texas Center For Education Policy

Greetings! The Texas Center for Education Policy (TCEP) came into existence last spring. A central purpose of the center is to bring researchers together whose work has direct bearing on policy issues of the day and to in turn bring them together with the larger stakeholder education communities statewide. Internally, we have begun to accomplish this through a series of highly successful policy brown bags as noted herein. Several of us have also been involved in the legislative session, advising policymakers on dropout prevention, student assessment, and teacher quality. Soon we will be posting policy briefs on our legislative-related work and activities. Click to continue.

TCEP - UCEA Brown Bag Series

The Texas Center for Education Policy and University Council for Educational Administration (UCEA) is proud to announce our first Brown Bag of the Fall, 2007 semester. On October 25, 2007, Dr. Victor B. Saenz will be presenting "Access, Equity, and Diversity Issues in Higher Education: Challenges and Opportunities for Policy Research." The event will take place in the George I. Sánchez Building (SZB), Room 364 at 4:00 p.m.For more information on the event or Dr. Victor B. Saenz, please click below.

(To view the .pdf flyer for the event, click on the following link: Dr. Victor B. Saenz, TCEP - UCEA Brown Bag Series.)

Inaugural Issue of the TCEP Review

We are proud to announce the release of our inaugural issue of the TCEP Review. This publication presents a summary of TCEP events, activities and research from our inaugural year. Featured in this issue is an article titled, “Urban Minority Students on the NCLB Bubble” by TCEP Associate, Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig. The article examines the effects of high-stakes testing on minority students in the Houston Independent school district. In addition, this issue of the TCEP Review includes a summary of our November 2006, inaugural convening on college readiness and our April 2007, K-12 Arts Education Summit. Finally, there is an update on TCEP Director, Dr. Angela Valenzuela’s research on immigration and education.

(To view the inaugural issue of the TCEP Review, click on the following link: TCEP Review, Issue No.1, Spring / Summer 2007 or click the TCEP Review button to your left.)