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Stephanie Noll

Writer, lecturer, Texas State University

Stephanie Noll is a writer living in Austin, TX. She is a senior lecturer at Texas State University, where she teaches courses on secondary English language arts pedagogy and supervises student teachers in central Texas.

Latest Columns

Public Education

Katy ISD is missing out on a teachable moment

By Stephanie Noll, Dec. 12, 2017

Providing teenagers with books that serve as both mirrors of themselves and windows to the outside world, as educator and scholar R.S. Bishop advocated for nearly two decades ago, is vital to their understanding of themselves and others in a world that is constantly changing and becoming increasingly complex. Katy ISD, by taking a book off the shelves, is missing a chance to do that.

Public Education

To make Texas schools great, ditch the education savings accounts

By Stephanie Noll, Jan. 31, 2017

If we are to uphold the Texas Constitution, we need to be clear on what the “support and maintenance of an efficient system of public free schools” means. Giving families taxpayer money to spend on private institutions has nothing to do with maintaining public free schools.