By kcaskins | July 18, 2012 at 5:58 am | No comments
A local teacher continues to recover after an illness that started as a bad cold turned to sepsis. The ordeal in March of last year has kept her out of the classroom.
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By kcaskins | July 18, 2012 at 2:25 am | No comments
Mayor Rahm Emanuel today dismissed a mediator's report that school officials had hoped would provide added bargaining power in their contract talks with teachers .
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By kcaskins | July 17, 2012 at 10:15 pm | No comments
A teaching associate at a private school in Iowa was fired for comments she allegedly made regarding "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." Naiya Galloway, a 31 year-old who worked at Hillcrest Family Services for six ...
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By Jason | July 17, 2012 at 6:29 pm | No comments
Rhee, a shameless self-promoter who already stands accused of lying on her resume about her alleged success as a teacher of elementary students, and who continues to be the subject of a US Department of Education ...
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By kcaskins | July 17, 2012 at 3:11 pm | No comments
Cindy Clifton, a former teacher at Crestview Middle School in Covington, Tenn., pleaded guilty to a range of criminal charges Thursday after investigators accused her of performing sex acts on 10 students in the classroom ...
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By Jason | July 17, 2012 at 10:58 am | No comments
Blame the teacher . It is often said that if you can read and write, thank the teacher . Hence, for all readers of this article, we owe it to our teachers
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By Jason | July 17, 2012 at 7:29 am | No comments
The crisis is caused by the constant attacks on public education and those who teach in public schools, by the effort to micromanage everything that teachers do and turn their work into data that can be used to evaluate them.
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Another Teacher Beaten Down...
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By kcaskins | July 17, 2012 at 2:41 am | No comments
Imagine that you're a high school teacher who prioritizes your love for the baby Jesus over your legal responsibilities as an educator and thus, in the name of all that is holy, successfully stops an atheist group from forming on campus.
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By Jason | July 17, 2012 at 12:44 am | No comments
Join him as he explicates the policy and the politics that surround legislation, teacher contracts, and the teacher -quality continuum from preparation to evaluation.
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By Jason | July 16, 2012 at 9:55 pm | No comments
Pennsylvania teachers must demonstrate a combination of classroom skills and student achievement if they want to make the grade on planned new statewide evaluations, the first overhaul of the assessments in more than 40 ...
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