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Obama: Romney Education Plan 'Not A Recipe For Growth'

| Sarah Butrymowicz | Posted 12.04.2012 | Home
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This piece comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report's HechingerEd blog. In the first presidential debate Wednesday night, President Obama and R...

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Joy Resmovits

America's Poorest City Axes Teachers, Pre-Kindergarten

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 06.15.2012 | Home
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Eighth-grader Selena Karner lined up in her Reading, Pa., middle school auditorium last week to receive an award for language arts. But during what wo...

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Facing Low Salaries, Teachers Take To Moonlighting

AP | CHRISTINE ARMARIO | Posted 01.11.2012 | Home
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MIAMI — By day, Wade Brosz teaches American history at an A-rated Florida middle school. By night, he is a personal trainer at 24 Hour Fitness. ...

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Obama Plan To Save Teacher Jobs Makes Many Assumptions

AP | KIMBERLY HEFLING | Posted 12.11.2011 | Home
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WASHINGTON — It's a startling statistic on the state of American schools: An estimated 280,000 teaching and other education jobs could be lost i...

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The Recession Created A 'Triple Tragedy' In Education

AP | By JEFFREY COLLINS | Posted 11.24.2011 | Home
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COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Stay-at-home-mom Cindy DePace was just hitting 30 when she decided to return to the work force by going back to school and becoming ...

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Laura Bassett

What Obama's Jobs Plan Does For Women

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 11.09.2011 | Politics
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While men lost more jobs in the recession than women, women have been slower to recover, losing nearly 300,000 jobs since the economic "recovery" bega...

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Sam Stein

Obama Jobs Plan: White House Weighing Options On School Repair, Teacher Hiring [UPDATE]

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.07.2011 | Politics
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WASHINGTON --The president's reported $300 billion plan to resuscitate a stagnant job market remains in a fairly vague form, one day before the presid...

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School Principal Sells Shoe Collection To Save Teacher Jobs

AP | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Worried about possible layoffs, school principal Michele Miller spotted a potential solution in her own home. The principal of ...

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Letter To A Young Teacher

Rick Ayers | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
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Rick Ayers

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.

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Union: 19,000 Teachers May Be Laid Off In California Over Budget Cuts

AP | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
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SAN BRUNO, Calif. — School districts in California have issued nearly 19,000 layoff notices so far to teachers amid uncertainty over the state b...

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5th Grader Donates $300 To Save Local Teacher Jobs

Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
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Alarmed to hear that state budget cuts were forcing teacher layoffs in her area, Arcadia, Calif. 5th grader Jocelyn Lam decided to donate her life's s...

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Cupertino Parents Rally To Save Teacher Jobs

Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact
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In conjunction with their Education Nation summit, NBC News is reporting education stories from across the country. Facing school budget cuts and imm...

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BACK TO SCHOOL SAVINGS: Given Billions To Rehire Teachers, Schools Wait Instead

New York Times | Posted 08.03.2011 | Politics
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As schools handed out pink slips to teachers this spring, states made a beeline to Washington to plead for money for their ravaged education budgets. ...

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Job Market 2010: Teaching Positions Scarce Yet Sought After

Posted 05.25.2011 | College
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The 'recession-proof' market for teachers has dwindled drastically, the New York Times reports. The relatively scant number of openings for teacher...

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