EL PASO, Texas, Oct. 1 -- The University of Texas at El Paso issued the following news release:
EL PASO, Texas (Oct. 1, 2026) - Teachers prepared through The University of Texas at El Paso's Miner Teacher Residency are boosting student learning, outperforming the average Texas teacher and staying in the classroom longer than their peers, according to a new policy brief from Texas Tech University's Center for Innovative Research in Change, Leadership & Education.
The brief's authors, J. Jacob Kirksey, Ph.D., associate professor of education policy at Texas Tech, and Erika Mein, Ph.D., associate dean of academic affairs and strategic initiatives in the UTEP College of Education, compared residency graduates with other teachers in their firs...