NEW YORK -- Activists holding "pink slips" have scattered across lower Manhattan to call attention to the millions of unemployed. Organizers had pred...
Posted 08.18.2011
While failing test scores, disobedient children and access to basic classroom resources are now constant causes for public school teachers to worry, m...
Posted 07.21.2011
They served Los Angeles' youth, got served pink slips, and now they are serving up fresh educational rhymes over the internet. The anonymous teacher-...
Education Week | Stephen Sawchuk | Posted 06.01.2011
This year was not the first in which Monica Iñiguez, a 4th grade teacher at Noble Avenue Elementary, in Los Angeles, received a pink slip. But it is...
Rick Ayers | Posted 05.25.2011
Something dawned on me. I think we pretty much should stop waiting for respect. It's not going to come, not for a long, long time.
Amy Weisberg | Posted 05.25.2011
I was struck by the dedication of these professionals, even in times as difficult as these, with furlough days, budget cuts, increased class size and lack of resources.
Zondra Hughes | Posted 05.25.2011
The ax is swinging hard in Corporate America, and, regretfully, some workerbees are employing nasty war tactics to keep their jobs.
Leo W. Gerard | Posted 05.25.2011
Bill Clinton saw it clearly when he was running for President against Bush I. It became his mantra: "It's the economy, stupid." Clinton wanted to ref...
cnn.com | Posted 05.25.2011
Voters disappointed over health care and other legislative efforts have now sent 5 million "pink slips" to members of Congress, the conservative Web s...
Rod Shrader | Posted 05.25.2011
It turns out that even though women are more than holding their own in terms of staying employed, their gains are not reflected in leadership positions.
USA Today | Barbara Hagenbaugh | Posted 05.25.2011
Nearly three-quarters of CEOs in the Business Roundtable expect to cut workers in the next six months as sales sag, a survey showed Tuesday, suggestin...
Dennis Danziger | Posted 05.25.2011
Dear Attorney General Holder, Here's what I know from having taught in big city public high schools for the past 15 years: We want your children to fail. That's the truth.
AP | JEANNINE AVERSA | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — An alarming half-million American jobs vanished virtually in a flash last month, the worst mass layoffs in over a third of a centur...
AP | Posted 03.06.2012