Artist David Deming Honors Scholar-Athletes Jan and Terry Todd with Bas-Relief
Former University of Texas at Austin College of Fine Arts dean and acclaimed sculptor David Deming has created and donated a bronze bas-relief of Drs. Jan and Terry Todd to the H.J. Lutcher Stark Center for Physical Culture and Sports.

Charter Schools No Cure-All for Black Students, Says Study
Despite being promoted as a viable alternative to traditional public schools, privately owned charter schools in Texas have higher attrition rates for black students than comparable urban public schools, says a University of Texas at Austin study.

Kinesiology Students Seize First Place at Student Bowl Competition
A team of undergraduate students in the Department of Kinesiology and Health Education have captured first place at the American College of Sports Medicine's Texas Student Bowl, beating around 19 other Texas teams.

Dr. Sharon Vaughn to Receive Special Education Research Award from Council for Exceptional Children
Dr. Sharon Vaughn, executive director for the College of Education's Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk, has been honored with the 2012 Council for Exceptional Children's Special Education Research Award.

Austin Community College Honors Roueches, Names Executive Offices After Them
Austin Community College District has honored two of the College of Education's most preeminent scholars and education administrators, naming the district's executive offices after Dr. John Roueche and Dr. Suanne Roueche.

Teachers Think White Females Lag Behind in Math, University of Texas at Austin Study Finds
High school math teachers tend to rate white female students' math abilities lower than those of their white male peers, even when their grades and test scores are comparable, according to a University of Texas at Austin study.

Dean Manuel J. Justiz Honored With $1.4 Million Endowed Chair
The Education Foundation Advisory Council for The University of Texas at Austin's College of Education has contributed $500,000 to create the $1.4 million Manuel J. Justiz Endowed Chair in Math, Science and Technology in Teacher Education.

College of Education Creates Texas's First Tejano History Curriculum
Tejanos have been a part of Texas for more than 500 years and make up over 50 percent of Texas's youth population. Until this year, though, their history was absent from Texas classrooms.

Helping Texas Schools Do More With Less the Goal of Education Productivity Forum
At a time when there are four school finance lawsuits claiming that the current school funding system is unconstitutional, The Institute for Public School Initiatives and the Institute for Productivity in Education are convening the second annual Improving Productivity in Public Education forum to talk about how schools can do more with less.

U.S. News & World Report ranks College of Education Number One Among Public Universities
Once again, U.S. News & World Report has ranked The University of Texas at Austin’s College of Education number one in the nation among public university graduate education programs.