Archive for the 'education' Category
A World’s Fair for Houston? Bill Gates touts KIPP, and more
Closed Published by Tory Gattis January 1st, 1970 on Houston StrategiesWow. Just finished watching an amazing Rockets game where they completely dismantled Lebron James (the only shutout in his career for assists) and the Eastern conference-leading Cleveland Cavaliers (holding them to their lowest score of the year). Th…
Texas schools are better than you think (but still have a long way to go)
Closed Published by Tory Gattis January 1st, 1970 on Houston StrategiesFor a while I’ve been wanting to do a post on this McKinsey report titled “The Economic Impact of the Achievement Gap in America’s Schools” (main report, supporting charts).First, the (very) bad news:This report examines the dimensions of four distinct…
A couple of events this week
Closed Published by Tory Gattis January 1st, 1970 on Houston StrategiesJust want to pass along a couple of event announcements for those who might be interested.The first is a personal one: Bob Sanborn of Children at Risk has asked me to co-host his KPFT radio show from 3 to 4pm on Monday Jan 18th. The theme is 2010 pred…
HISD as an education “lighthouse for the world”
Closed Published by Tory Gattis January 1st, 1970 on Houston StrategiesI was lucky enough to attend a GHP education luncheon (summary story) last week featuring Dr. Terry Grier, head of HISD, and Dr. Roland Fryer, a Harvard economist who focuses much of his research on closing the black/brown-white gap in education.  …
Fixing traffic, census, entrepreneurial education, rankings, and more
Closed Published by Tory Gattis January 1st, 1970 on Houston StrategiesSome smaller items this week:The Wall Street Journal examines options for reducing traffic congestion and improving commutes (with some good graphics). The good news is that Houston is already doing most of these. That’s also the bad news -…
My TEDx Houston talk, mostly about Houston
Closed Published by Tory Gattis January 1st, 1970 on Houston StrategiesSorry for the post delay this week - got back midweek from California and ran right into a giant pile of work. Back in June I had the opportunity to speak at TEDx Houston on the UH campus. It was a fantastic (and yet nerve-wracking) experience I really enjoyed. Well, the professionally edited video of my talk is finally available: “What is Social Systems Architecture and why does it matter?”
290 rail, IAH A380, city GDP, H-town Hackerspace, K12’s future, and more
Closed Published by Tory Gattis January 1st, 1970 on Houston StrategiesOK, the smaller miscellaneous items just keep stacking up:
Check out TX/RX Labs, Houston’s Hackerspace. I just think it’s awesome that Houston has something like this. Very cool and expanding fast.
Peter Wang writes about a nightmare traffic experience at CityCentre for a holiday party, noting that New Urbanist/”Livable Center” developments in Houston will still need to accommodate large
“Anti-Paris” Houston #1 and #4, commutes and transit, toll policy, school choice, poverty, and more
Closed Published by Tory Gattis January 1st, 1970 on Houston StrategiesSorry for the late post this week. Busy, busy. Some smaller items to pass along:The Austin Contrarian is skeptical that higher gas prices will dramatically reshape cities, and he uses Houston as part of his case.MSNBC combines the results from 5 othe…
UH Tier 1 Flagship, rankings, plans, fans, and more
Closed Published by Tory Gattis January 1st, 1970 on Houston StrategiesAccording to the Chronicle today, seven different universities are going to pitch the legislature on being elevated to Tier 1 research university funding status at the same level as UT-Austin and TAMU (extra $70m a year). They may choose one or two, b…
Terry sent me this link to a short essay and some stats titled “Texas on the Brink”. I thought I’d share my response with you:Although I don’t really think “we’re on the brink” (most of our economic growth stats outpace the nation), I do partially agr…