On Father's Day, Haley Hartwick usually stops by Texas Roadhouse, which was her father's favorite restaurant, to get a take-out dinner of steak and potatoes. She then likes to go home and watch the movie "Quest for Camelot," a film they enjoyed watching together.
A study finds that school board reelections are tied to achievement of white students, even in heavily minority districts. It highlights a need for public understanding about a stubborn problem.
The provost at the University of St. Thomas announced he is stepping aside at the end of the fall semester, three days after a lawsuit challenged his handling of a lewd email allegedly sent by another administrator to him, a female colleague and a priest. Dominic Aquila said he will leave the provost's position at the private Catholic university but will continue to work with home-schooled children and teach as a faculty member.
Mark White, a Democrat who served as the governor of Texas from 1983 to 1987, has died at the age of 77. During his time in office, White's most notable achievements came in education reform. In 1984, he signed landmark legislation that included the famous "no-pass, no play" law that said students must pass their classes to be eligible to participate in extracurricular activities.
While thousands of voters in McLennan County participated in early voting on Monday, others do not plan to vote at all. As of Monday night, a total of 8,153 people had voted by mail and in person in McLennan County.
Over the last several decades, those who view religion with respect regularly come back to the same question: What has happened to the religious intellectuals, the thinkers taken seriously by nonbelievers as well as believers? In this increasingly secular time, a natural follow-up question ratifies the point of the original query: Who cares? Why should the thinking of those inspired by faith even matter to those who don't share it? Well, historically, secular and religious intellectuals often engaged in helpful dialogue, and Alan Jacobs, a Baylor University scholar, suggests that religious intellectuals are the missing solvent in our fractious culture wars: They are uniquely well-placed to mediate between secular liberals and conservative believers whom progressives often see as "forces of reaction."
In the aftermath of the deadly attack on Dallas ... . Chelsea Whitaker, former point guard from Baylor University and now a detective with the Dallas Police Department, poses for a portrait on Wednesday, July 13, 2016, in Dallas.
Watching the drama at Baylor University unfold, we have seen a lot of media-fueled hysteria followed by knee-jerk reactions with little careful thought and consideration. We also have seen the Baylor University regents act rashly to remove high-level administrators and employees without a single document - the law firm Pepper Hamilton reportedly presented its conclusions orally without documents - to support them.
Two polygamous towns on the Arizona-Utah line are vigorously opposing a bid to disband their shared police department as a way to remedy religious-based discrimination against nonbelievers, saying problems at the... Two polygamous towns on the Arizona-Utah line are vigorously opposing a bid to disband their shared police department as a way to remedy religious-based discrimination against nonbelievers, saying problems at the agency... A New Jersey doctor says a baby born to a mother with the Zika virus appears to be affected by the disease. By PATRICK MAIRS Associated Press A Honduran woman infected with Zika gave birth in New Jersey to a baby girl with birth defects caused by the virus, her doctor said Wednesday.