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Jobs With The Biggest Talent Shortages

2012-05-30T15:21:47Z

The latest report on jobs this Friday is expected to reveal only moderate hiring as around 12.5 million Americans remain jobless. But according to a r...

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Teachers Accused Of Giving Students Answers On State Tests In Exchange For Perks

2012-05-30T14:20:39Z

Teachers at a Brooklyn elementary school are accused of giving their students the answers on standardized tests, reports the New York Daily News. In r...

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Duncan Seeks Advice: How To Have More Teachers 'Clamouring' For Low-Performing Schools?

2012-05-29T17:32:04Z

This piece comes to us courtesy of New Haven Independent.

As Obama's top school official came to a city turnaround school Tuesday, he popped a ques...

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Tom Allon: Save the Children

2012-05-29T15:45:29Z

We cannot pretend to care about whether our children are learning, if we don't do anything to make our teachers the best that they can be.

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Sam Chaltain: Do American Schools Need More Classroom Closers?

2012-05-29T12:13:53Z

What is the statistical equivalent of a "save" in teaching -- and if we measured it, would it help us better assess a teacher's ability to support the learning and growth of children?

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New Turnaround Teacher 'Trying To Get It Right' In Tough School

2012-05-25T18:33:34Z

This piece comes to us courtesy of New Haven Independent.

"Is Ganesh an elephant or a man?" Jason Schneider asked his 7th graders.

As they delve...

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Outrage Over Teachers Locking Young Children In 'Monster Closet'

2012-05-25T14:19:55Z

A Houston, Texas teacher and teacher's aide have been removed from their classroom for allegedly disciplining their pre-K students by placing them in ...

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Kati Haycock: Good Teachers Create the Future

2012-05-24T17:50:15Z

Nobody is more important to our country's future than those of you who will serve in our poorest communities. Thank you for what you have chosen to do with your lives.

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Sen. Daylin Leach: Rescue Me

2012-05-24T15:45:09Z

Pennsylvania has a lot of school districts in grave financial distress. But as bad as this is, it gets far, far worse.

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Teacher Dismissed For 'Hardcore Porn' Past Was Worried She'd Be Outed

2012-05-24T14:30:53Z

The Southern California science teacher who was placed on administrative leave last month for a former career as a porn actress once spoke openly abou...

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Teachers Maligned As 'Radicals' In Pro-Scott Walker Flyer

2012-05-23T12:17:00Z

A conservative group in Milwaukee helped produce an anti-teacher flyer that identified the names and salaries of Janesville, Wis., public-school teach...

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Alan Singer: Teachers as Crap Detectors and the Morningside Center for Teaching Social Responsibility

2012-05-23T10:00:07Z

Tom Roderick, executive director of the Morningside Center for Teaching Social Responsibility, asked me to share my thoughts on teaching and crap detection. These are some of the things I learned from forty years as a teacher.

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Romney Shifts Focus To Education, Teachers' Unions

2012-05-23T09:37:19Z

WASHINGTON — Originally planning to focus on education, Mitt Romney instead reignited the debate over his business credentials on Wednesday, wel...

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Are Teachers Prepared To Learn From Standardized Tests?

2012-05-22T15:50:34Z

These days, it's not enough for teachers to know how to manage a classroom, impart knowledge and deliver lesson plans.

In the wake of test-heavy po...

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Debby Guardino: A Year Dedicated To 'Living Life Like Will'

2012-05-22T12:24:06Z

One of the things I remembered hearing in Joplin was Will's mom saying to, "Live Your Life Like Will". Her loss and message helped guide me in those early days.

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Youth Radio -- Youth Media International: Community Service To Wipe Away School Suspensions

2012-05-22T14:54:17Z

By: Robyn Gee
Recent data from the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights shows that black and Latino students are much more likely to...

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National Labor Conference Focuses Seeks To Improve Teaching Profession

2012-05-22T10:44:52Z

CINCINNATI -- Educators including the U.S. secretary of education, teacher union leaders and school administrators will focus this week on ways to tra...

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Brian D. Cohen: Why You Can't Really Learn Art From a How-To Book

2012-05-22T10:37:09Z

So what are teachers for? The delivery-of-content model of instruction doesn't describe all of what teaching is about. Most of what you really must know and be able to do isn't delivered to you. You don't need someone up there who knows all the answers to tell you what to do.

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Ellen Weinreb: The Greatest Impact -- Remember JCC Preschool Teacher Chris Walton

2012-05-21T18:50:50Z

Young professionals not only want successful careers but also want to contribute to society. Usually, they assume this will happen quite seamlessly in a fast-paced corporate world.

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Barbara Greenberg: 5 Lies Moms of Teens Tell

2012-05-21T17:15:47Z

What an easier time we would have if we felt we had permission to be real with ourselves and each other.

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Randi Weingarten: Schools and Communities: Stronger Together

2012-05-18T22:07:05Z

It's time to stop ignoring poverty and the realities that disadvantaged students face. We must instead address the factors that can and do impede student achievement and well-being.

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Silicon Valley Nonprofit Launches Full-Scale Assault On Teacher Protection Laws

2012-05-18T17:14:10Z

This story comes to us courtesy of Silicon Valley Education Foundation's Thoughts On Public Education blog, TopEd.org.

A nonprofit founded by a Sil...

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Teacher Writes Being Gay Just Like Being A Murderer On Facebook

2012-05-18T14:45:00Z

Jack Conkling, a Prairie Hills Middle School social studies teacher and Buhler High School assistant women's basketball coach in Buhler, Kan., is unde...

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Teacher Allegedly Made Special Needs Student Sit In Cardboard Box

2012-05-17T12:25:00Z

A state investigation has been opened at Hudson Middle School in Caldwell County, N.C., following allegations that a teacher forced a student with spe...

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Rep. Mike Honda: The Anti-Bullying Movement: What's Next

2012-05-17T10:04:41Z

The American Dream is first ignited in the classroom, and bullying is a clear and present danger to our nation's safety, spirit and competitiveness. Each educator and campus leader has a key role to play in the national mission to create a safe environment for each child.

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