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to complaints from teachers and school administrators across the country that the nation's maineducation law is outdated and punitive.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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