Course Access Is Working in Texas

Education | February 1, 2016

By Michael Q. McShane | Read Time 1 minute minutes

Brittany Wagner and I released a paper last month outlining how a course access could work in Missouri. Tens of thousands of Missouri students attend schools that do not offer advanced-level course work, and course access could go a long way to helping meet their needs.

The Foundation for Excellence in Education has a great new video out about Texas’s course access program. Click on the link above to check it out.

Why should Texas have all of the fun? Let’s get stories like this out of the Show-Me State!

About the Author

Michael Q. McShane

Michael Q. McShane is Senior Fellow of Education Policy at the Show-Me Institute. A former high school teacher, he earned a Ph.D. in education policy from the University of Arkansas, an M.Ed. from the University of Notre Dame, and a B.A. in English from St. Louis University. McShanes analyses and commentary have been published widely in the media, including in the Huffington Post, National Affairs, USA Today, and The Washington Post. He has also been featured in education-specific outlets such as Teachers College Commentary, Education Week, Phi Delta Kappan, and Education Next. In addition to authoring numerous white papers, McShane has had academic work published in Education Finance and Policy and the Journal of School Choice. He is the editor of New and Better Schools (Rowman and Littlefield, 2015), the author of Education and Opportunity (AEI Press, 2014), and coeditor of Teacher Quality 2.0 (Harvard Education Press, 2014) and Common Core Meets Education Reform (Teachers College Press, 2013).

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