Easier Way to Fire Teachers in Sex Cases

Bill to Speed Teacher Firings
Wall Street Journal
Currently, independent arbitrators decide whether a teacher accused of misconduct can be fired. A bill backed by Mr. Bloomberg would give education officials, or, in New York City's case, the mayor's office, the power to fire teachers accused of sexual ...

Seeking Easier Way to Fire Teachers in Sex Cases
New York Times
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said on Tuesday that the city should have the final say on whether teachers accused of sexual misconduct should be fired, even if hearings determined that they should keep their jobs. Under state law, misconduct cases ...

New York Times

Teacher caught kissing her boy-toy student
New York Post
LOVEY DOVEY:Global-studies teacher Julie Warning gets cozy in the lap of 18-year-old student Eric Arty. The romantic scene in a Greenwich Village park was caught on camera by another of her students. The Department of Education reassigned Warning to an ...

New York Post

Bloomberg: Teachers Involved In Sex Cases Shouldn't Have Great Job Security
Huffington Post
The mayor's efforts follow a recent report revealing a 35 percent increase in complaints accusingteachers of sexual misconduct in city schools. (And just today, The New York Post published aa video showing a teacher smooching with a student in ...

North Carolina get 'No Child Left Behind' waiver
Kansas City Star
The Obama administration announced Tuesday that it was issuing waivers to eight states, including North Carolina, in exchange for more modern state-developed accountability systems that will prepare all students for graduation and higher education.

State sets plan to fix schools in Lawrence
Boston.com
Other elements call for fixing deteriorating school buildings; empowering teachers, principals, parents, and community members to lead school change efforts; and overhauling programs for students learning to speak English, who make up about a quarter ...

Maryland wins 'No Child' waiver
Washington Post
The Obama administration issued the first batch of waivers to 11 states earlier this year in response to complaints from teachers and school administrators across the country that the nation's maineducation law is outdated and punitive.

Waivers for 8 More States From 'No Child Left Behind'
New York Times
The Obama administration freed eight states from core provisions of the No Child Left Behind education law on Tuesday, bringing to 19 the number of states granted waivers this year, and officials said that even more states would soon qualify for them.

New York Times

8 more states given waivers from No Child Left Behind
Philadelphia Inquirer
By Dorie Turner AP ATLANTA - Eight more states are gaining flexibility from the Bush-era No Child Left Behind law, US Education Secretary Arne Duncan said Tuesday. The Education Department has approved waivers for Delaware, Connecticut, Louisiana, ...

Ofsted warns schools over pay rises for poor teachers
Telegraph.co.uk
Poor teachers face being denied generous pay rises under new plans to boost standards of state education, it emerged today. Ofsted will assess the way schools manage teachers' performance as part of a shake-up of inspections.

Telegraph.co.uk

Is teaching a science or an art?
Washington Post (blog)
This one was posted on his new Science and Education blog. You can find his other videos here, including ones on learning styles and why he says they don't exist, and whether brain-basededucation is a fad or a breakthrough. By Valerie Strauss | 04:00 ...

8 states get waiver from federal No Child Left Behind education law
Washington Post
That overhaul requires annual performance evaluations for principals, administrators and teachers, and links tenure to a teacher's effectiveness. “I think today signaled a change in our application, a change in our ability to compete with other states, ...

Teachers could have pay frozen after poor school inspection reports
The Guardian
Announcing the changes, Sir Michael Wilshaw, the chief inspector of schools, said Ofsted will "consider whether there is a correlation between the quality of teaching and salary progression". Inspectors will look at anonymised information about the ...

The Guardian

New York Gets Waiver for No Child Left Behind
New York Times
Richard Perez-Pena reports in The New York Times that the United States Department of Educationis freeing states from certain provisions of the law under the condition that states agree to meet new standards, over a longer time frame, that Arne Duncan ...

California Senate supports streamlining teacher removal over crimes
Los Angeles Times
Alex Padilla (D-Pacoima) introduced the measure in response to allegations of sexual misconduct against several teachers at Los Angeles campuses including Miramonte Elementary School, where former teacher Mark Berndt has pleaded not guilty to 23 counts ...

Eight More States Get Education-Law Waiver
Wall Street Journal
The US Department of Education granted Connecticut, Delaware, Louisiana, Maryland, New York, North Carolina, Ohio and Rhode Island the waivers. Seventeen additional states and Washington, DC, applied but their applications remain under review.

Education reform package carries state to NCLB waiver, one of just eight ...
The Hour
Dannel Malloy and US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan hailed education reform as the reason the state had one of the strongest applications for a No Child Left Behind waiver at the state capitol Tuesday. The No Child Left Behind (NCLB) waiver gives ...

Education chief concerned about state's chances for No Child Left Behind waiver
Mason City Globe Gazette
During a conference call with reporters Tuesday afternoon, US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said department officials expect to make further recipient announcements in the coming weeks. Still, Iowa Department of Education Director Jason Glass has ...

McGraw-Hill Higher Education Awards Scholarships To Students For High ...
MarketWatch (press release)
NEW YORK, May 30, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- McGraw-Hill Higher Education today announced the winners of the Get Connected and Win video contest, designed to showcase how students engage with digital course content and learning tools to improve ...

Obama Frees 8 States From 'No Child' Education-Testing Rules
BusinessWeek
By John Hechinger on May 29, 2012 President Barack Obama freed eight states from provisions of the No Child Left Behind education- testing law after they pledged to turn around low-performing schools and tie teacher evaluations to student achievement.

A federal boost for Connecticut's education reforms
The Connecticut Mirror
In the end a bill was eventually approved that had teacher union support, a key component to the state winning its waiver, Duncan said. Phil Apruzzese, president of the Connecticut EducationAssociation, the state's largest teachers' union, ...

Incumbents Knocked Off State Education Board
CBS 11
DALLAS (AP) - Several incumbents on the State Board of Education retained their positions despite challenges in Tuesday's primary, while others lost their spots. With all 15 spots up for re-election this year because of redistricting, ...

Obama administration gives 8 states waivers on No Child Left Behind
CNN (blog)
by Greg Seaby, CNN Washington (CNN) - The US Department of Education granted eight additional states waivers Tuesday from strict requirements of the No Child Left Behind law. The White House announced a deal last year that allows states relief from ...

Eight states get waiver from No Child Left Behind
USA TODAY
ATLANTA (AP) – Another eight states are gaining flexibility from the Bush-era No Child Left Behind law, US Education Secretary Arne Duncan said Tuesday. By Susan Walsh, AP President Obama heads to the stage with Education Secretary Arne Duncan, left, ...

USA TODAY

Berger revises education plan on teacher tenure, pre-K and school calendar
News & Observer
Senate leader Phil Berger presented the newest version of his legislation Tuesday in the SenateEducation Committee, which approved it by voice vote roughly along party lines. The amended language retreats on the elimination of teacher tenure by ...

Mind-reading robotic teachers are more... Anyone? Anyone ...
By Anthony Verrecchio
Anyone? Anyone? Attention-grabbing. By Anthony Verrecchio posted May 30th 2012 6:52AM. Mind-reading robotic teachers are more... Anyone? Anyone? Attention-. You'd have thought that replacing a human teacher with a swanky robot ...
Engadget

Education Tax Credits Aren't New and Aren't Just a Work-Around for ...
By Adam Schaeffer
Credits are much more popular and legally protected than vouchers, but these characteristics are the result of important differences in function and principles. Moreover, the credit concept goes back more than forty years (more for deductions) ...
Cato @ Liberty

Education reformers: Shake up our Legislature | Strange Bedfellows ...
By Joel Connelly
The education group is supporting a number of Democratic House members identified with education reform, notably Reps. Reuven Carlyle in Seattle, Roger Goodman and Ross Hunter on the Eastside and Laurie Jinkins in Tacoma.
Strange Bedfellows -- Politics News

Oregon higher education officials consider a 6 percent tuition ...
By Bill Graves, The Oregonian
The State Board of Higher Education will vote on the proposed increases at its meeting Friday in Portland. It usually approves the annual tuition proposals. Tuition has climbed by some measure every year at least since 1990. Students were ...
Portland News

Robot Teacher Ensures Engaged Students | Ubergizmo
By Pradeep Chandrasekaran
The duo has experimented with various techniques human teachers use to keep their students focused such as changing the pitch or tone of their voice, gesturing at objects and engaging with the audience. To confirm the robot's ... Andrew Ng, Director of Stanford University's Artificial Intelligence Lab in California and co-founder of online classroom Coursera said, “The idea of recapturing students' fading attention in this way would have significant implications for the field of education.
Ubergizmo

Teaching Kids To Fight Back Against Bullies - The Huffington Post
By The Huffington Post News Editors
Ed Samane, Pro Martial Arts: Teaching Kids To Fight Back Against Bullies. Posted: 05/29/2012 .... I have kids that get picked on because maybe they have a certain learning disability or dress differently or are more artsy. My instructors and I try ...
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Mitt Romney's plan to federalize education reform | eSchool News
By staff and wire services reports
In reading Romney's 35-page education white paper, I was struck by the contradiction between that boilerplate promise (to eschew 'prescriptive top-down mandates') and the long string of new requirements that Romney would place on state and ... evaluation systems based in part on effectiveness in advancing student achievement, reward effective teachers and principals with additional compensation and advancement opportunities, eliminate or reform teacher tenure, streamline the ...
eSchool News

330 Schoolgirls And Teachers Poisoned In One Month in ...
By jonathanturley
Last month, 170 schoolgirls and three teachers were poisoned. Muslim extremists oppose the education of women and the Karzai Administration, while supporting such education, has been accused of rolling back on the gains of women and ...
JONATHAN TURLEY

Bucks Music Teacher, Retiring After 35 Years, Gets a 'Mr. Holland ...
By Ed Fischer
Scott Teschner spent 35 years in the district, 25 of them as choir director at Central Bucks East High School. Nearly three hundred students, their families, teachers, and alumni came out over the weekend for a surprise farewell concert to pay ...
CBS Philly

The Future of Undergraduate Teaching - WorldWise - The Chronicle ...
By Nigel Thrift
The Chronicle of Higher Education ... This online content will be paralleled by peer tuition (or teachingby questioning) which, when done well, is clearly effective (see here and here), and the associated growth of so-called learning analytics.
WorldWise

Hearing begins on challenge over teacher merit pay | May 30, 2012 ...
The Florida Education Association is challenging a proposed state rule on teacher evaluations that would be used in part to determine who gets merit pay.
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Great News: NYC Teachers Now Making Out with Students in Public ...
The Department of Education reassigned Warning to an administrative position ... According to an eyewitness, the 26-year-old teacher at Manhattan Theater Lab ...
www.jammiewf.com/.../great-news-nyc-teachers-now-making-...

What is abstinence-plus education? School districts embracing more ...
Wilkinson said teachers will follow up with parents who don't return the ... Abstinence-only requires the teaching of "some or all" sex education topics listed in the ...
www.nydailynews.com/.../abstinence-plus-education-school-di...

McGraw-Hill Higher Education Awards Scholarships To Students ...
NEW YORK, May 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- McGraw-Hill Higher Education ... how they use McGraw-Hill Connect®, the company's online learning platform, ...
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Upper West Side High-School Teacher Caught in Barely Secret ...
"Stunning" 26-year-old Julie Warning, a global-studies teacher at Manhattan Theater Lab high school near Lincoln Center, was caught on video making out with ...
nymag.com/daily/.../julie-warning-teacher-student-caught.html

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Education analysts raise new concern: dropouts with debt

Education analysts raise new concern: dropouts with debt
Boston Globe
That is raising new questions about the wisdom of decades of public policy that focused on increasing access to higher learning but paid less attention to what happens once students arrive on campus. And some education experts have begun to argue that ...

LaunchPad Learning Partners With MetaMetrics and Total Reader to Launch a ...
MarketWatch (press release)
To help the many students who have fallen behind, Launchpad Learning (www.launchpadlearning.com ) has developed a new approach to close the reading gap by: LaunchPad Learning empowers parents to be part of the reading solution by giving them an online...

What Does 'Furlough' Mean to a Fourth Grader?
Huffington Post
We couldn't pay the salaries of the new teachers. Losing Mr. Q (a favorite teacher in the school) If you could send a message to our state government what would it be? In order to go on in life, you have to get a good education and if you keep cutting ...

Teachers strike set to disrupt North East schools
Journal Live
Yesterday, the National Union of Teachers (NUT) and the NASUWT announced an historic agreement committing the unions to work together “to protect teachers and defend education”. Representing more than 85% of the teaching profession across England and ...

Babson Selects Blackboard for Integrated Set of Teaching and Learning Technologies
MarketWatch (press release)
WASHINGTON, May 29, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Babson College, a global leader in business and entrepreneurship education, has chosen Blackboard to support an integrated set ofteaching and learning tools to help expand Babson's online learning ...

100 Teachers to Receive $125 Grants From Consumers Energy
MarketWatch (press release)
Each teacher who hosted a presentation this year was entered into a random drawing to win a grant, worth $125 each. The grants may be used to purchase school supplies and other educational items. They will be sent to teachers before the end of the ...

US Secretary Of Education Arne Duncan To Make Announcement with Malloy Tuesday
Hartford Courant
The group had scheduled a discussion with teachers, and Duncan was to highlight his agency's efforts to strengthen the teaching profession and listen to teachers about state reforms. Earlier this month, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and the legislature ...

Education May Protect Brain From Exposure to Solvents
MSN Health & Fitness
TUESDAY, May 29 (HealthDay News) -- People with less than a high school education who work with solvents may have problems with their thinking skills later in life, according to a study of people in France. In the study, researchers from Harvard ...

Teacher called primary pupils idiots and fools
Telegraph.co.uk
A teacher branded unruly primary school pupils as 'pests, idiots, clowns and buffoons' a disciplinary panel heard yesterday. Roger Griffin allegedly put pupils into detention for 'fidgeting'. He denies serious misconduct Photo: NEWSTEAM Music master ...

Telegraph.co.uk

Education And Mitt Romney
WBUR
(AP) Martin West, education advisor to Mitt Romney and assistant professor at Harvard University's Graduate School of Education. New York Times “In all the months of Republican primaries and early campaigning, the topic of education rarely emerged.

WBUR

Letters: Education cuts aren't political win
Appleton Post Crescent
Admittedly, the budget must be balanced and taxpayers should be protected, but instead of saying cuts to teacher benefits are painful and accepting union concessions, he conducted a “divide and conquer” strategy, debasing teachers by referring to ...

Teachers seeing no future in the classroom
The Age
Beginning teachers are also put off by the difficulty of obtaining ongoing positions, with 68 per cent saying the requirement to reapply for contracts had a negative effect on their teaching. The survey of 1047 beginning teachers will be released by ...

Teachers out of their class, says union
Herald Sun
"Teachers at the start of their career really should be allowed to focus on their area of qualification and expertise, and the basic skills of teaching," she said. A spokesman for Education Minister Martin Dixon said he had confidence in how principals ...

Cap on teacher cuts 'great news' - Minister
TVNZ
Today Education Minister Hekia Parata gave a guarantee that no school will lose more than two full-time teachers over the next three years. "Ninety per cent of schools will have a net loss of one full-time teaching equivalent," Parata told TVNZ's Close ...

Remedial College Classes Need Fixing, Say Experts
Huffington Post
The group says the classes are largely failing the nation's higher education system at a time when student-loan debt has become a presidential campaign issue. Meanwhile, lawmakers in at least two states have pushed through changes and numerous ...

Face of state Board of Education could change
Houston Chronicle
JAMIE STENGLE, AP DALLAS (AP) — The face of the Texas Board of Education could change with all 15 spots up for re-election this year because of redistricting. And as in many other races across the state, candidates are asking voters to decide how ...

Mitt Romney Proposes Education Reform That Will Provide A Chance For Every Child
Las Vegas TSG
For the nation's K-12 schools, his policies will provide more choices for parents, further emphasize responsibility for results, and place a quality teacher in every classroom. For higher education, Romney will ensure that all Americans have affordable ...

Las Vegas TSG

AUDIO: Governor's Weekly Address: Education Reform Part 4
Pacific News Center
Not only that, this full implementation needs to include a holistic testing program that will go with the Common Core, and the new learning and teaching resources, too. He's right. We can't expect anything of teachers and students unless there's a ...

Pair of villages in Holy Land teaching Aramaic in effort to revive language ...
New York Daily News
JISH, Israel - Two villages in the Holy Land's tiny Christian community are teachingAramaic in an ambitious effort to revive the language that Jesus spoke, centuries after it all but disappeared from the Middle East. The new focus on the region's ...

New York Daily News

Teacher motivation is at the centre of PPP's policy on education - Dr Nduom
GhanaWeb
Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom, Progressive People's Party (PPP) Presidential Aspirant has said motivatingteachers was a central concern of the PPP's free, continuous, compulsory education from kindergarten to Senior High School. He said "it is evident that the ...

Nanaimo teacher wins prestigious award
Canada.com
A celebrated teacher from Nanaimo is again drawing attention after winning the Educator of the Year award from the Association of BC Deans of Education. The innovative learning methods being taught by Mary-Lynn Epps, a Grade 4/5 teacher at Randerson ...

Will Texas Voters Care about Billions in Education Cuts?
By Abby Rapoport
More than 10000 teaching positions have been cut, and over 8000 elementary schools have applied for waivers to go over the state's class-size cap, almost 6000 more than last year according to the AP. Tuesday's Texas primaries ... From class- size limits to testing, vouchers to funding, the site covers the major education issues for parents and teachers alike, and offers a searchable database of all candidates for the state House, Senate and Board of Education. This struggle, largely ...
The American Prospect

Face Of State Education Board Could Change « CBS Dallas / Fort ...
By KTVTPhil
The face of the Texas Board of Education could change with all 15 spots up for re-election this year. Candidates are asking voters to decide how ... For the District 8 spot in southeastern Texas, social conservative incumbent Barbara Cargill, who currently chairs the board, faces Linda Ellis, a consultant from The Woodlands and former teacher who has said on her website that she's “watched in horror as ideologues took over” the board. Cargill, of The Woodlands, is a former teacher ...
CBS Dallas / Fort Worth

UVa to begin business-education dual degree program | Daily ...
University of Virginia officials are hoping that a new joint business-education graduate degree will harness the entrepreneurial spirit to solve today's education problems. “I think it gives us an opportunity to tap into some talent that ordinarily ...
Daily Progress - News - Local Education

Lipshaw: Don't Blame Faculty for Legal Education's Problems
By Paul Caron
Australasian Tax Teachers Ass'n • Upcoming Meeting • Publications • U.S. Members European Ass'n of Tax Profs • Upcoming Meeting • Publications .... I don't particularly care for the U.S. tort system and its effect on product and medical costs, but attributing the crisis of legal education to current law professors because they get paid well or write theoretical "law and ..." articles is like attributing defensive medicine to the plaintiffs' medical malpractice bar because of the standard ...
TaxProf Blog

Reynolds School District staff and teacher place flags for Memorial ...
By Lynne Terry, The Oregonian
Enlarge Brent Wojahn, The Oregonian TROUTDALE, OREGON - May 28, 2012 - Tom Beaman, Social studies teacher at Reynolds high School helps staff post flags along Reynolds High School Monday morning, Memorial Day. Teachers have ...
Oregon Education

Neshaminy School District Teachers Threaten To Strike Again ...
By TimothyJMcL
Contract negotiations are scheduled to resume later this week in the Neshaminy School District in Bucks County amid a looming strike deadline set by the teachers.
CBS Philly

PINOY TEACHERS CALL FOR TOUGHER TEACHER EVALUATIONS
By admin
NEW YORK CITY – The U.S. educational system is in trouble, according to some Filipino teacherswho've been recently recognized as Association of Filipino Teachers of America (AFTA) Ulirang Guro (Model Teachers) awardees in Astoria, New York. They say, for a ... Vice president of AFTA, Leila Rudolfa believes another solution is to have a common core standard of teaching nationwide. ...English and Special Education teacher Joanne Grande said, “Your future is not very secure.
Balitang America

Teachers need to lead — Joanne Jacobs
By Joanne
You are here: Home / Education / Teachers need to lead ... Speak up, teachers! urges Nancy Flanagan on Teacher in a Strange Land. And, if you've ... So why aren't accomplished teachers at the forefront of the discourse on their own issues?
Joanne Jacobs

Recipes for learning : Johns Hopkins University – The Gazette
By Robin Ferrier
By Robin Ferrier,. Mary Maldarelli, a rising senior at Johns Hopkins, talks with students from DuFief Elementary in Gaithersburg, Md., about the dancing raisin experiment being offered by the Johns Hopkins Center for Biotechnology Education.
Johns Hopkins University - The Gazette

Education May Protect Brain From Exposure to Solvents | Yahoo ...
TUESDAY, May 29 (HealthDay News) -- People with less than a high school education who work with solvents may have problems with their thinking skills later ...
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3D Healthcare Announces Partnership with Innovative Social Learning
Canada-based 3DHC, which develops continuing health education (CHE) programs and otherlearning activities will now enhance online program ...
www.businesswire.com/.../3D-Healthcare-Announces-Partners...

WEEKLY ADDRESS: Education Reform Part 4 | Governor of Guam
Education Reform Part 4. Teaching. By Governor Eddie Baza Calvo ... We can't expect ...
governor.guam.gov/.../weekly-address-education-reform-part-...

Princeton to honor four secondary school teachers - Princeton ...
Each teacher will receive $5000, as well as $3000 for his or her school library. ... that the foundation of all learning is built on the student/teacher relationship, and ... value of an education that energize Daniel to excel in his teaching strategies.
www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S33/82/.../index.xml?...

Where Does Student Motivation Fit in the Education Debate? | NEA ...
As any teacher will tell you – it's complicated. ... The National EducationAssociation online ...
neatoday.org/.../where-does-student-motivation-fit-in-the-educ...

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For Romney to beat Obama on education could be tricky

For Romney, beating Obama on education could be tricky
Los Angeles Times
Along with touting his own education record as governor of Massachusetts, the presumptive Republican nominee attacked Obama for, among other things, being a tool of the teachers unions. Not everyone is willing to give Romney credit, but there's no ...

Why Romney, Obama are education twins
Washington Post
He appoints a splendid group of education policy advisers, smart people with great ideas. Then he learns that he has to give a speech explaining how he differs from President Obama on schools when those same advisers have spent their careers making ... 

Teachers' unions threaten strike action
The Independent
The Government is facing the threat of co-ordinated strikes by the two biggest teachers' unions in the autumn after being accused of plunging education into a state of “crisis.” The National Union ofTeachers and the NASUWT announced a "historic ...

Teachers threaten strike action in autumn
Telegraph.co.uk
The National Union of Teachers and the NASUWT announced a ''historic agreement'', in response to the serious concerns teachers have about the way the Government is ''undermining'' the education system. The two unions, which represent 85 per cent of...

Telegraph.co.uk

Teachers threaten fresh wave of strikes
BBC News
By Sean Coughlan BBC News education correspondent The two biggest teachers' unions are threatening co-ordinated strikes in the autumn in England and Wales over jobs, pensions, workload and pay. The National Union of Teachers and the NASUWT announced a ...

BBC News

Michael Gove v the teacher unions
The Guardian
The teaching unions are the opponents Michael Gove most relishes. The educationsecretary likes to present them as an obstacle to reform – "those in trade unions who put adults' interests before children's …" – in the words of a recent speech.

The Guardian

Teaching unions unite to fight cuts
Financial Times
By Chris Cook, Education Correspondent The UK's two biggest teaching unions have set aside a historic rivalry to engage in a co-ordinated campaign to fight back against what they call an “unprecedented and sustained attack by the government on the ...

Unions condemn 'relentless assault' on teachers
ITV News
The unions today wrote to Education Secretary Michael Gove to seek urgent discussions about the "enormous threats" to teacher morale and the educationsystem itself. The head of the NASUWT teachers' union Chris Keates has condemned what she called the ...

ITV News

Teaching unions threaten autumn strikes
BBC News
The two biggest teachers' unions are threatening co-ordinated strikes in the autumn in England and Wales over jobs, pensions, workload and pay. The National Union ofTeachers and the NASUWT told a media conference that the profession was "in crisis".

BBC News

TN math teachers are in demand
The Tennessean
“It's always harder to find certain types of teachers, such as math, special education, foreign language, etc., but so far, we've been able to find good candidates,” he said. “For the past several years, we've hosted our own teacher recruitment fair in ...

ASUSS is a Fraud, Says NUT
AllAfrica.com
By Francis Okeke, 28 May 2012 Academic Staff Union of Secondary Schools (ASUSS) is a fraudulent institution conceived by some self seeking individuals to mislead some teachers and the general public, the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) has said.

Watching dissidents is a booming business in China
San Jose Mercury News
By day, Yao is kept in a room, not allowed to work and watched by fit, young gym teachers and other school staff. At dinner time or later, he is sent back to the apartment that he shares with his wife and 3-year-old daughter.

Ontario professors say online learning no substitute for on-campus learning
Toronto Star
Kristin Rushowy Education Reporter Online learning is no comparison to the on-campus experience, warn concerned Ontario professors in a province-wide survey obtained by the Star. “Online learning as is right now is a useful option for distance learning ...

Teaching unions join forces to 'defend education'
Public Finance
By Vivienne Russell | 28 May 2012 The two largest teaching unions in England and Wales have made a 'historic agreement' to work together to protect teachers' pay and conditions and defendeducation. The National Union of Teachers and the National ...

Ghanaian Teachers Deserve Better
GhanaWeb
This will demand absolute commitment to the course and attitude towards teachers as exemplified by this reported negotiation between the Head teacher of Nandom Senior High School and the Regional Education Directorate. This head teacher had gone to ...

Learning from the barber from Iraq
Washington Post
Henry Allen, who won the Pulitzer Prize for criticism in 2000, was a Post editor and reporter for 39 years. This guy was new. Dark skin, stubble, a wary economy of gesture, an accent. I've been going to this barber shop for years.

Teacher shortages impact basic education needs
Independent Online
By Shanti Aboobaker Minister of Basic Education Angie Motshekga said 6 641 schools across the country had fewer than six teachers, and more than 20 000 teachers were forced to practise “multi-grade teaching”, in some instances teaching as many as four ...

Give teachers a pay raise for the right reasons
Charleston Post Courier
It deprives teachers of the opportunity to be rewarded for exceptional work — and for schools to identify teachers whose work is not adequate. It is encouraging that the Senate has recognized thatteacher pay is in need of reform.

ESTRICH: The next education president
North County Times
Mitt Romney is right about one thing: Too many American children do receive what he last week called a "Third World education." A disproportionate number of them are children of color. It is indeed "the civil rights issue of our era.

Teachers oppose letting parents opt kids from classes
CBC.ca
The Manitoba Teachers' Society says parents should not be allowed to pull their children out of classes in the provincial curriculum, including sex education classes. A resolution that was passed at the society's general meeting over the weekend ...

CBC.ca

CBSE toppers euphoric, credit parents and teachers
IBNLive.com
New Delhi: The usually staid and quiet school administrative offices on Monday reverberated with squeals of delight and laughter and congratulatory remarks as the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) announced its Class 12 examinations results.

IBNLive.com

Inside Higher Ed: Romney reveals higher education plans
Times Higher Education
By Libby A. Nelson for Inside Higher Ed Mitt Romney, the presumed Republican presidential nominee, pledged last week that, if elected, he would reshape or do away with two major Obama administration higher education policy initiatives: the overhaul of ...

Times Higher Education

NUT sues Ogun over salaries' deductions
Vanguard
By DAUD OLATUNJI ABEOKUTA – The Nigeria Union of Teachers, Ogun State Chapter, said it had got the leave from the National Industrial Court, NIC, to join the Accountant-General of the state in the suit against the state Teaching Service Commission and ...

South Africa: Limpopo Education explains "Selowe primary school" saga
7thSpace Interactive (press release)
According to the report, the school, which has no textbooks, stationery, chairs, desks or toilets, has about 165 learners who are being taught by 14 teachers who are not being compensated. The school was reportedly established after some parents ...

Quick Notes: Hindu Education, Pagan Alliance Festival, A - Patheos
By Jason Pitzl-Waters
To a certain extent, no matter how much infrastructure we end up building, we'll always embrace a hybrid of home-based grass-roots teaching alongside more formal attempts at religious education and collective worship. For more on ...
The Wild Hunt

NYC Educator: Sorely in Need of a Teacher
By NYC Educator
Unless he believes it's a good thing to have teachers fired for no reason, to make no progress in supposedly all-important test scores, or to be embroiled in scandal over their falsification, it's tough to see what makes Rhee a hero. ... As things stand right now, he's actively contributing toward crashing public education to the ground. Bookmark and Share. Posted by NYC Educator at 5:51 AM. Sorely in Need of a Teacher. Heroic captain "Sully" Sullengberger has written a new book, ...
NYC Educator

Instapundit » Blog Archive » HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE ...
By Glenn Reynolds
May 28, 2012. HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Today's Grade-Inflated, Lake Wobegon World; Letter Grade of A Now Most Common College Grade. Posted by Glenn Reynolds at 7:07 am. Tweet ...
Instapundit

Teaching schools a business approach - The Nation
When these sources are not sufficient, schools must consider starting businesses and becoming more involved with companies to be able to continue providing education and a better future for these needy ones. Social organisers from other countries recently made a site ... ZOSS has a problem with its teachers' salaries as it has to hire 23 educators for its 600 students, an expense of around 900000 kyats (more than Bt33,000) a month. "The school funds a music concert once a year.
NationMultimedia.com - National

“Australians lack education about Islam” — Winds Of Jihad By ...
By sheikyermami
The Latest From Winds Of Jihad: “Australians lack education about Islam” Dr Thilo Sarazzin: no 'respeck' for the soldiers of allah! Egypt: Mubro's win by promising hope'nchange and lots of government handouts The Yoots of Carcassonne ...
Winds Of Jihad By SheikYerMami

Schools Matter: The States: More Bully Politics of Education Reform
By P. L. Thomas
From South Carolina to New Jersey to Wisconsin—and all across the U.S.—universal public education is under assault by the bully politics of education reform. In my home state of South Carolina, Governor Haley and Superintendent Zais, ...
Schools Matter

Portland, Oregon: Students, teachers march into downtown to ...
Once in the square, students, parents and teachers provided personal testimonies of how further cuts would have a negative impact on public education and other students sang songs and read poems. Don Gavitte, a history teacher at Grant ...
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Grimes: Growing CA's education welfare system
By Stephen Frank
California government education is not about education, it is about money for special interests (wants ideology taught, regardless of facts) and unions (they just want money from teachers and control of school boards and budgets. “AB 1500 ...
California Political News and Views

Kids with Cell Phones: Record Your Socialist Teachers! | Right Wing ...
By Doug Giles
God bless cell phones. With them we can chat with our friends; we can watch the grossest zit since the dawn of time being popped via YouTube; and our kiddos can record their bat crap crazy teachersattempting to mitigate their First Amendment rights! This week audio surfaced of a North Carolinateacher, Tanya Dixon-Neely (black), berating 13-year-old Hunter Rogers (honky) for criticizing president Obama (hate crime). Neely said Rogers could be arrested for slandering Obama.
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Education Fireworks at PJ Media « Stately McDaniel Manor
By Mike McDaniel
If you have a few minutes, you might want to stop by PJ Media where the good folks there have been kind enough to publish one of my rants on education. Regular readers of the Tuesday educationcolumn will notice some similarity to an ...
Stately McDaniel Manor

Legal versus Medical Education and some blatant 'crowdsourcing'
By Dingo_Pug
Therefore, my purpose here is to blatently 'crowdsource' this information. I have a few questions (ok, a lot of questions) posted below for folks who have experiences with medical education (preferably first-hand, but second-hand is ok too).
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Media Literacy Education News from NAMLE
By Ethical Markets
... 2013 in Los Angeles! The theme: Intersections: Teaching and Learning Across. ... ScreenEducation Magazine Call for Papers Screen Education magazine is looking for industry practitioners,teachers, academics and experienced feature writers with a proven background in film/television/media. We also wish to hear from ... [learn more]. - Jaclyn Kahn. Focus and Historyteacher at Winston Preparatory School, a private school for students (grades 6-12) with LearningDisabilities ...
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Physical Education Is Good for Kids' Grades, Study Finds - Yahoo ...
"Physical education has been pared down from three lessons a week to one or two," ... speaks during a campaign rally at the Paul R. Knapp Animal learning ...
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VIDEO: Education should be a part of JEEP, says local scientist ...
Universal education, modern skills training, emboldened creativity, and justifiable rewards are ...
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A short description of education in England - Study Abroad - Blogs
In the United Kingdom, public education is finished when the child is ... If the average student has less life experience then, depending on the teacher, the course ...
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Education experts disagree on importance of school class size

Education experts disagree on importance of school class size
Denver Post
US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan not only emphasizes teacher effectiveness, but takes it a step further. He proposes not just putting more kids with the best teachers, but also paying thoseteachers more. "So if you have a good teacher with higher ...

Physical Education Is Good for Kids' Grades, Study Finds
U.S. News & World Report
SUNDAY, May 27 (HealthDay News) -- Boosting students' levels of physical education improves their grades, a new, small study says. Swedish researchers followed more than 200 schoolchildren, starting from first through third grade, for nine years.

Potential teacher shortage developing in California's public schools
San Gabriel Valley Tribune
California's teaching population is growing increasingly old, even as fewer young people choose to enter the profession, according to the report, "The Status of the Teaching Profession 2011" by the Center for the Future of Teaching and Learning at ...

Education's revolving door
Janesville Gazette
They'd climb the ladder from teacher to principal and then stick around in that role until they retired. No more. Today, principals routinely step into the thorny spot between education and administration after only a few years in the classroom, ...

Hard Lessons Follow Rocky Start For Chicago Teacher
NPR
Tyrese Graham is a second-year science teacher at John Marshall Metropolitan High School on the West Side of Chicago. When he started teaching there, Marshall was among the worst public schools in the city. When Graham walked into his first class, ...

Education, enforcement boost boater safety in NH
The Union Leader
State safety officials are crediting the state's mandatory Boating Safety Education law. Passed in 2000 and phased in among age groups until 2007, the law requires that people 16 or older who operate a boat over 25 horsepower on state waters have a ...

FCAT failures show test-obsessed teaching falls short
Orlando Sentinel
To fully appreciate how deeply flawed Tallahassee's approach to public education is, you must look beyond the recent news of abysmal FCAT scores — and look at how we got here. You see, FCAT was supposed to be a simple fix for a complicated problem.

Gifted education funding falling short on high achievers
Milford Daily News
Often misunderstood because of its name, gifted and talented education is essentially a kind of special education for students who fall on the opposite end of the learning spectrum. Like specialeducation students, gifted learners have different needs ...

Chinese teacher visa controversy resolved
China Daily
By Tan Yingzi in Washington (China Daily) Within 24 hours of consultations between officials from the Chinese embassy and the US State Department, a revised policy directive was sent out on Friday to clarify the visa status of Chinese-language teachers ...

Questions on NY teacher evaluations answered
Wall Street Journal
The state, to qualify for $700 million in federal Race to the Top funding, promised to develop a standard, objective teacher and principal evaluation system. The Cuomo administration and New York State United Teachers, the state's largest teachers ...

Education notes, May 27
The Sheboygan Press
Three Oostburg Christian School teachers were honored by the school's association for reaching career milestones. The recognitions were announced at the annual meeting on May 15. Elaine Kappers was honored for 25 years of teaching in the Resource Room.

US amends order directing Chinese teachers to return
Zee News
Beijing/Washington: Amid an uproar in China over the planned American move to send home dozens of Chinese teachers, the US has withdrawn its "sloppy and incomplete" order directing 80 Confucius Institutes teaching Mandarin to seek reaccreditations.

Increasingly, teachers rely on volunteers to fill gaps
San Bernardino Sun
Third-grade teacher Rebecca Hollis works with students during class at Trapp Elementary School in Rialto on May 8, 2012. Hollis welcomes parent volunteer Curtis Winton to work with her students. (Gabriel Luis Acosta / Staff Photographer ) Eye on ballot ...

Education leaders meet to discuss TAFE funding cuts
ABC Online
By Rhiana Whitson (ABC Gippsland) More than 30 people from Gippsland's education, training and apprentice sector met at GippsTAFE Waratah Restaurant to discuss the funding crisis facing the sector. The Gippsland Trades and Labour Council convened ...

StudyDog Recommends Six Shows to Keep Children Engaged in Education through ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Television programs like 'Sid the Science Kid,' 'Cyberchase' and 'Word Girl' take a fun approach toteaching children about reading, math, science and art. Los Altos Hills, Calif. (PRWEB) May 27, 2012 School is out in just a few short weeks, ...

Is Excessive Daytime Sleepiness the Cause of Learning and Behavior Problems in ...
Huffington Post (blog)
On May 1, the results of a study by Penn State researchers was published showing that children who have learning, attention and/or behavior problems may be suffering from a condition known as excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) -- even if tests indicate ...

La. gives 315 vouchers to Ruston school with no room, computers or teachers ...
Alexandria Town Talk
New Living Word School in Ruston has been approved by the Louisiana Department of Education to accept 315 students as part of the state's voucher program, but the school doesn't have the facilities, computers or teachers in place to accommodate that ...

Big cuts expected in education
Peoria Journal Star
By Anonymous General state aid to public school districts is being cut by $211 million under a kindergarten through high school education budget approved by a House committee Saturday. The bill now goes to the full House, which will consider education ...

'Classpad' set to make learning fun and interactive in schools
Economic Times
NEW DELHI: As educational innovations transcend the boundary of classroom teaching, learningis no longer destined to be a monotonous task within the four walls of a classroom but a fun and interactive activity. Marking a remarkable shift in education, ...

EDUCATION: Concerns growing over remedial education at community colleges
North County Times
Remedial education at California's community colleges is riddled with flaws, including a placement system that sends large numbers of students to corrective classes they may not need and course schedules that lead to large numbers of dropouts, ...

'She wasn't just a teacher' : Lambert retires after 43 years at Berea
Richmond Register
By Crystal Wylie Register News Writer BEREA — Scroll to the bottom of the story to read "Love for Lambert: Berea graduates share memories of their teacher," as well as a list of other Berea retirees this year. Writer's Note: Brenda Lambert is the ...

Overcoming Bias : Teacher Remembered
By Robin Hanson
... best third-grade teacher ever.” So I paused to recall memorable teachers from my childhood. ...This is a story both about the difference a teacher can make, but also about how teaching may not matter much. If you want to learn to write, well, ...
Overcoming Bias

Mitt Romney's Education Muddle | The Moderate Voice
By PRAIRIE WEATHER
Finally, he vowed to encourage teacher evaluation and accountability. This is something the Obama administration has been doing through its Race to the Top initiatives, much to the dismay of someteachers' unions. Romney then ... Big deal on education reform! I don't know why he hasn't looked at the clips. Rod Paige is tainted goods at this point in time. … [from a rough transcript]. ___. Michael Petrilli, writing at HuffPo, thinks Romney's education policy is a “good start.” There's a lot ...
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Quebec students & Obama partisans prove some teachers indoctrinate
By Sandy
Sandy Crux's blog about the role of politics on education, autism & our daily lives. HOME · About Info · Contact Form ... For example, check out this column by Mark Tapson from FrontPageMag.com and its link to a nine minute video of an unidentified female teacher and her students in a North Carolina high school classroom. (H/T bluecanada.ca). As a former ... My point here though is that teachersare teaching the message rather than the reality. I just got a comment on a thread from ...
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A Researcher's Dilemma: Changes in Teaching Practice–Whose ...
By larrycuban
A Researcher's Dilemma: Changes in Teaching Practice–Whose Judgment Matters? The issue of change as perceived by individual teachers and by a researcher poses a dilemma for the researcher. I was a researcher at Las Montanas high ...
Larry Cuban on School Reform...

Active Learning & Teaching
By Dr. Nellie Muller Deutsch
What is active learning? Isn't all learning active? According to Ackoff & Greenberg, teachers have become experts at learning because they teach. They authors advocate teaching as a way to learn. I recently discovered their book and have ...
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The in box. An Illinois teacher's message to Obama. « Fred Klonsky
By Fred Klonsky
If I stopped in any teachers lounge in Illinois in 2012 and asked them to join me and work again for Barack – and the Democratic Party — I don't think I'd make it out alive! I think every teacher in Illinois should make copies of your post and ...
Fred Klonsky

Michigan State: GOP pushing tax cuts over education and other needs
By LindaMBeale
Michigan is run by the Republican Party, and it looks like the state's government is set to continue policies that cut taxes for busineses and cut income taxes--all of which primarily benefits the better off--while drastically cutting back on things ...
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OUPblog » Blog Archive » Learning not to curse in Arizona
By Alice
Arizona's Superintendent of Public Instruction recently sent monitors into the schools to root outteachers with strong accents and poor grammar, a practice the state reluctantly abandoned when the U.S. Department of Education suggested it might be ... The bill applies to anyone in the state who gives instruction at any level from preschool to university, and it's framed broadly enough to include anything a teacher says that's X-rated, both in the classroom and out of school as well.
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Physical Education Is Good for Kids' Grades, Study Finds | Yahoo ...
SUNDAY, May 27 (HealthDay News) -- Boosting students' levels of physical education improves their grades, a new, small study says. Swedish researchers ...
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Indian High Commission slams Education Ministry over stranded ...
Indian High Commission slams Education Ministry over stranded expatriate teachers thumbnail. The Indian High Commission in the Maldives has claimed ...
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Kids with Cell Phones: Record Your Socialist Teachers! « CITIZEN ...
This week audio surfaced of a North Carolina teacher, Tanya Dixon-Neely ... is she doesn't know what the hell she's talking about and is teaching your children. ... PUBLIC EDUCATION: NC student on pro-Obama teacher who berated him: ...
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Love Teaching
Letter to Teacher...so sweet! ... Neat Teacher appreciation gift idea ... Wall - aligned with common core- {freebie} Teachers Pay Teachers Go Back inShare Super ...
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