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Three school districts and a coalition of charter schools have agreed to be test kitchens for some radical ideas for improving teacher quality — from paying new teachers to spend another year practicing before getting their own class to letting student test scores affect teacher pay.
A teachers' union is claiming that a California-based firm that recruited teachers from the Philippines to work in Louisiana schools made the educators pay fees of $15,000 or more.
The Obama administration is calling for an overhaul of college programs that prepare teachers, saying they are cash cows that do a mediocre job of preparing teachers for the classroom.
Lenny Macklin made it to 10th grade before having a teacher who looked like him — an African-American male. Gregory Georges graduated from high school without ever being taught by a black man.
U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan appealed Friday for a new generation of extraordinary teachers, calling education the civil rights cause of our time.
The government of Jamaica has agreed to pay public school teachers more than $90 million in back wages over the next three years.
Three cash-strapped states may find themselves left at the starting line in the competition for more than $4 billion in education stimulus funding if they don't amend laws that prevent student test results from being tied to teacher evaluations.
A teachers' union challenged the Obama administration Monday to live up to its promise of working with teachers and not against them.
Al-Qaida-linked militants killed two teachers and eight police escorts as they brought copies of tests back from an examination center near the Algerian capital, a local official and Algerian media said Wednesday.
The National Education Association has taken over its Indiana branch as investigators look into the finances of the affiliate's troubled insurance arm.
If the nation's schools are going to see improvement, President Barack Obama says there has to be a way to ease bad teachers out of the classroom.
One day last December, little Morris — with shining eyes and a broad smile — skipped into my classroom toting a gaily wrapped box. With the impatience and exuberance typical of a toddler, he insisted that I open the gift right away. Before I even untied the bow, he announced that it was Hanukkah cookies that he and his mother had made. Of course, he insisted that I try one immediately.
Math can be hard enough, but imagine the difficulty when a teacher is just one chapter ahead of the students. It happens, and it happens more often to poor and minority students. Those children are about twice as likely to have math teachers who don't know their subject, according to a report by the Education Trust, a children's advocacy group.
Performance-based pay is a road many teachers don't want to travel. But the newly elected president of one of the country's largest teachers unions says that in her experience, school-wide bonuses work.
New York City can continue to ban public school teachers from wearing political campaign buttons in schools, a judge ruled Friday.
The teachers' union for the nation's largest public school system accused the city on Friday of banning political campaign buttons and sued to reverse the policy, declaring that free speech rights were violated.
The school system in coastal Baldwin County — 60 miles by 25 miles of Alabama farmland framed on two sides by waterfront towns — was short on teachers, especially in courses such as math and science.
Along with normal first-day jitters and excitement, students in this tiny district started school Monday wondering which teachers might be toting firearms.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry indicated Monday that he supports a school district's decision to allow teachers and staff to pack guns for protection when classes start this month.
Backpacking in Europe? Nah, the dollar's too weak — and for some, the needs closer to home are too great. More than ever, graduating college seniors are signing up to spend two years in America's poorest communities as part of Teach for America, the nonprofit organization that recruits and trains top college students for teaching jobs.
Kristi Upson-Saia is known as a tough grader. So she's entitled to feel a little nervous this time of year, when the tables are turned and her religion students at Occidental College in Los Angeles are the ones grading her.
Roads in Saudi Arabia are among the world's most dangerous but one type of victim stands out: female teachers who are dying at alarming rates because of long commutes through the desert to reach remote schools.
Precious Jackson has two years of teaching under her belt and two school teacher-of-the-year awards to show for it. She also has a pink slip.
Many teachers in Puerto Rico ignored a call to strike Friday, but public schools across the island canceled classes anyway as students stayed home.
Israeli high school teachers ended a two-month strike on Thursday after receiving a pay raise and government promises to redress some of the problems in the Israeli school system, including class size.
Why Canada can't stop bullies - Parentcentral.caDaniel Sebben was just 13 when the taunts began. Day after day, for the next three years, the Newmarket high school student faced homophobic slurs, insults and verbal abuse from a group of six boys.
Teacher Accused of Putting 'Hit' Out on Supposed Gay PupilReports have surfaced that teacher Randolph Forde, who works at Mundy Mill's High School, Clayton County, Georgia, took a 16-year-old teenager out of class to ask the youngster if he was gay.
French police prevent teen high school massacre The boy's parents raised the alarm when they realised he had taken the family gun from their house near Beauvais, north of Paris, and was headed to his school in Beauvais itself, officials said.
Teachers, parents meet after controversial lessonTeachers and Parents met in Sandwich, MA, after a science teacher gave a lesson to fifth graders showing them pictures of the lung, brain, tissue, heart, and spleen. He also showed them pictures of the female's egg and a fertilized embryo.
The New York Time published an interesting story this Saturday on the phenomenon of teachers making their lesson plans available on-line for a fee. The article, “Selling Lessons Online Raises Cash and Questions”, reported that
25 Chicago Students Arrested for a Middle-School Food FightThe food fight here started the way such bouts do in school lunchrooms most anywhere: an apple was tossed, a cookie turned into a torpedo, and an orange plunked someone in the head.
Op-Ed Contributor - Teach Your Teachers Well - NYTimes.com"Our best universities have, paradoxically, typically looked down their noses at education, as if it were intellectually inferior.
Obama pushes education reformsMADISON, Wis. After a year in office primarily spent trying to rescue the economy, President Barack Obama went back to school on the anniversary of his election Wednesday, telling America states must now focus on reforming education to ensure a strong economic future.
I was able to listen to Pres. Obama's speech at Wright Middle School in Madison, WI today. He was detailing the "Race to the Top" education plan.
Brains: the secret to better schools - thestar.comFrench neuroscientist Bruno della Chiesa met with his country's education minister in Paris to talk about the groundbreaking international movement to link the fields of teaching and brain science.
Obama to Lift HIV/AIDS Travel BanIt appears that President Obama is doing everything in his power to enforce laws against the majority of Americans.
Clayton teachers on leave after fight over Facebook love letter Two Clayton County teachers -- who say they are romantically involved with the same man -- are on administrative leave after getting into a physical fight over a love letter posted on Facebook.
Early reports: Job gains signal stimulus impact States have reported using stimulus money to create or save more than 388,000 jobs so far this year, buttressing the Obama administration's claim that the $787 billion plan has had a significant impact on the economy.
BBC NEWS | South Asia | Defying the Taliban to get an educationAround the world, millions of children have to go to great lengths to get a decent education. In the fifth dispatch in the BBC's Hunger to Learn series, Aleem Maqbool reports from Pakistan's Swat Valley, where girls are defying Taliban attempts to stop them going to school.
BBC NEWS | Africa | The greatest hurdleAround the world millions of children are not getting a proper education because illness or disability prevent them going to school. In the third report in the BBC's Hunger to Learn series, Will Ross meets children in Tanzania who are overcoming visual impairment to learn.
BBC NEWS | Middle East | 'We have a right to go to school'Around the world millions of children are not getting a proper education because of poverty or war. In the second report in the BBC's Hunger to Learn series, Katya Adler meets children in Gaza whose schooling has been repeatedly interrupted by conflict.
She's weaving herself a new career Ann Robinson will always be an educator at heart. Last summer, however, she had to ask herself a question all too familiar to people with long careers that come to an unexpected end: "Now what am I going to do?"...
Adult evolution begins in the late teens and early twenties, the first crucial staging post in adult life. It forms the foundation stage when people set the basics for their future.
Teacher Charged with Stealing Lunch Money from 3rd GraderA Cason Lane Academy teacher faces theft charges after confessing to stealing small amounts of cash from a student fundraiser as well as student lunch money, according to Murfreesboro Police.
Eastern Detour to Build Life Skills: Teaching English in AsiaThere are more benefits to teaching in Asia than simply learning a new language – you'll also pick up many skills valuable to potential employers on your return.
Biting pupil pried from Ohio teacher's arm - Yahoo! News on Yahoo! NewsDayton, Ohio police said an elementary student bit a teacher on the arm and had to be pried off by a school official.
Study critiques schools over subjective gradingIf you have ever rolled your eyes when your child says a teacher's grade was unfair, you might want to think again. Your child might be right.
A few suggestions to parents from one who has had to deal with a education system that needs improvement: (1) Most important: Be your child's advocate. Talk to the teachers and the senior staff about you child's welfare and progress, clearly detailing your concerns.
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