New York Times
On Tuesday, Spanish teachers went on strike in cities across the country by the thousands, seeking to defend the education sector against a package of spending cuts — €10 billion, or $12.7 billion — approved last week by Parliament as part of the ...
Teachers strike across Spain, protesting cuts
Chicago Tribune
MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish teachers went on strike on Tuesday to protest against cuts ineducation spending that unions say will put 100000 substitute teachers out of work but that the government says are needed to tackle the euro zone debt crisis.
Miami teachers union calls for tax amnesty
CBS News
MIAMI — The teachers union in Miami-Dade County has proposed what could be an innovative way to raise extra money for education: A tax amnesty program that would go after homestead exemption cheats. At a news conference Tuesday, the United Teachers of ...
Romney shifting focus from economy to education
Fox News
NEW YORK – Mitt Romney is wading into a new policy arena — the nation's education system — as he broadens his focus to appeal to general election voters still getting to know President Barack Obama's likely opponent.
Our city a good example of education teamwork
Cincinnati.com
The conference focus is how to transform teaching, spotlighting new approaches to improve student achievement by boosting the stature of the teaching profession and the number of well-qualifiedteachers. The event is at the Duke Energy Center downtown.
Spain cannot afford to neglect education
Telegraph.co.uk (blog)
By annanicholas While in the UK Nick Clegg pontificated about the rights of one and all to attend university, teachers, parents and students in Spain took to the streets to protest about spending cuts in education. It was the first time ever that such ...
Telegraph.co.uk (blog)
News Summary: From elementary grades to university, Spanish teachers and ...
Washington Post
THE STRIKE: Teachers and students across Spain walked out Tuesday. Union officials said 80 percent of teachers took part in the strike, while the national education ministry put the figure at 19 percent. THE GRIPE: Austerity measures being taken to ...
Teaching Untold Stories During Asian Pacific Heritage Month
Huffington Post
Beginning in 1942, 13 Latin American governments arrested more than 2300 people of Japanese descent in their countries -- largely from Peru -- including teachers, farmers, barbers, and businessmen. The US government transported these individuals from ...
Creative Learning Corporation Announces Record Quarter
MarketWatch (press release)
AUGUSTINE, Fla., May 23, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Creative Learning Corporation (OBB:CLCN) , owner and developer of Bricks 4 Kidz(R), the highly-popular children's education and enrichment program, is pleased to announce record revenues and profits for ...
Xueda Education Group Announces First Quarter 2012 Financial Results
MarketWatch (press release)
Total number of learning centers increased to 342 as of the end of the first quarter of 2012, up from 295 learning centers as of the end of the previous quarter. Course hours delivered in the first quarter of 2012 increased by 15.4% year-over-year to ...
Education body 'confident' new exams will be ready on time
Scottish Daily Record
But teaching unions say the audit, ordered by Education Secretary Mike Russell, was a "shallow exercise which barely skimmed the surface". Both the Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) and the Scottish Secondary Teachers Association (SSTA) voiced ...
Afghan School Attack: Students, Teachers Poisoned In Takhar Province
Huffington Post
TALIQAN, Afghanistan, May 23 (Reuters) - More than 120 schoolgirls and three teachers have been poisoned in the second attack in as many months blamed on conservative radicals in the country's north, Afghan police and education officials said on ...
Education public forum tonight in Tampa
WTSP 10 News
Tampa, Florida -- Florida Education Commissioner Gerard Robinson will be in Tampa tonight to meet face to face with parents and teachers as part of a series of public forums regarding the state of public education and the higher standards set for ...
Educator conference arrives in Cincinnati
Cincinnati.com
At least 400 national, state and local education leaders, including US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, will converge on Cincinnati today for a two-day conference on transforming the teachingprofession. The 2012 Labor Management Conference, ...
Chicago Teachers Union staging downtown rally Wednesday
Chicago Tribune
Right now, as required by the education reform law, a three-member panel is reviewing the offers from both sides. That process won't be completed until mid-July. The chief sponsor of the education reform law, state Sen. Kimberly Lightford, D-Maywood, ...
Mitt Romney announces education policy team
Boston.com
Peyser, who also advised Romney predecessors William F. Weld and Jane Swift, was involved in several key decisions in Massachusetts education reform, including the birth of charter schools and keeping support intact for the MCAS graduation requirement ...
Wash. education groups file charter initiative
Seattle Post Intelligencer
The coalition including the League of Education Voters, Stand for Children and Democrats forEducation Reform has until July 6 to collect nearly 250000 valid voter signatures. A spokesman for the coalition said the groups would use both paid and ...
High school teacher suspended for telling student he can be arrested for ...
New York Daily News
A high school social studies teacher in North Carolina was suspended Monday for telling a student he was not allowed to disrespect President Obama and could be arrested for speaking ill of the commander-in-chief. Tanya Dixon-Neely, a teacher at North ...
New York Daily News
Florida's education chief holds forum in Tampa on FCAT
Tampabay.com
Calling it "Conversations with the Commissioner," the state Department of Education on Tuesday billed the 7:30 pm forum at Hillsborough Community College as an opportunity for "parents, teachersand local communities to talk about education in Florida.
Chicago Teachers Union Protest: Preps For 4000-Strong Downtown Rally Wednesday ...
Huffington Post
The Chicago Teachers Union is preparing to bring together some 4000 Chicago Public Schoolsteachers in a Wednesday rally intended to send a message of solidarity to Mayor Rahm Emanuel amidst ongoing teacher contract negotiations -- and rumors of an ...
Spanish teachers and students say 'No' to cuts
euronews
Teachers and students in Spain held rallies in towns and cities across the country in protest at government reforms aimed at slashing public spending. For Education, a proposed three billion euro budget reduction translates into fewer teachers, ...
euronews
Letters: The power of a teachers union
Los Angeles Times
Troy Senik says that the California Teachers Assn. is the state's most powerful union. How does he define powerful? With pay? At an average salary of $68000, teachers are not the best-paid public employees. Plus, starting salaries for beginning ...
Teachers, students strike in Spain against govt cuts in education spending
Times of India
MADRID: Tens of thousand of striking teachers and students and their supporters demonstrated across Spain to protest deep government cuts to education spending. The protesters included groups of students, young parents accompanied by their sign-holding ...
Grockit Wants to Build a Pinterest for Learning
By Sarah Kessler
Soon anyone (the capability is still invite-only at launch) will be able to compile content pieces onto a board or “learning.” A nifty ... It was only a matter of time before the education sector jumped on to the social media bandwagon. We think it's ...
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Wall Street Survivor Gamifies Financial Education With Help From ...
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Anthony Ha is a writer at TechCrunch, where he covers media, advertising, and startups. Previously, he was a staff technology writer at Adweek, worked as a senior editor at the tech blog VentureBeat, and was also a reporter at the Hollister ...
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Parents, Teachers Voice Concerns At School Budget Protest In ...
By Mike Dougherty
At Bright Hope Baptist Church, community group Action United joined residents speaking against cuts from the state and local level to education. ... Parents, Teachers Voice Concerns At School Budget Protest In North Philadelphia. May 23 ...
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Romney Names Education Policy Advisers - Politics K-12 ...
By Michele McNeil
Michele McNeil covered education and state government in Indiana for a decade before joiningEducation Week as a state policy reporter in June 2006. Alyson Klein, who reports on federaleducation policy, joined the staff in February 2006 ...
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Ignorant Teachers Who See Obama as a King - Mary Grabar ...
By Mary Grabar
It was while I was driving from Florida, where I gave a presentation on education to citizens, that I heard from talk show hosts about the abuse by North Carolina High School social studies teacher Tanya Dixon-Neely towards a student who ...
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Labor Management Conference Focuses on Elevating the Teaching ...
By Amy Buffenbarger
The NEA's Three-Point Plan for Education Reform revolves around increasing the quality of teacher candidates before they ever reach the classroom, ensuring teachers remain at the top of their game throughout their careers and improving student learning ... We need to continue to share these best practices and talk about what's working, so that more school districts can benefit and join us in working to transform our schools into world class institutions of learning,” said Van Roekel .
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Daily Kos: Anonymous fliers target Wisconsin teachers who signed ...
By rss@dailykos.com (Laura Clawson)
... to look for the teachers' names on a list of recall petition signers and: At the bottom of the flier is a "Parents' Rights Protection Form" urging parents to send it to Superintendent Karen Schulte and request that "my child be assigned to a classroom taught by a non-radical teacher during the 2012-2013 school year." [...] ...
Teen whose teacher said he could be jailed for speaking ill of ...
By Howard Portnoy
In this video clip from the show, Hunter enlarges upon teacher Tanya Dixon-Neely's blinkered approach to education, telling host Gretchen Carlson: [She] always has open ... Rogers' mother remarks, “My biggest concern is that this 'teacher' is responsible for teaching my child and hundreds of others, and she is not teaching them factual information.” A concern that is not raised is the ...Gee, whatever happened to the great teachers of my youth 70s. My 9th grade bio teacher was a ...
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Student Who Recorded Teacher Yelling at Him for Criticizing ...
A teacher is now suspended with pay after audio was found of her yelling at a student for ... by Fox and Friends Posted in: 2012 Election, Barack Obama, Education, ... Should Teachers Be Allowed to Interact With Students on Social Media Websites? ... concern is that the teacher is not teachingstudents factual information.
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