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Firing teachers can be a costly and tortuous task
A Times investigation finds the process so arduous that many principals don't even try, except in the very worst ...Posted by Derek Hawkins -
A Radical Fix for Schools?
(Video) How is Secretary of Education Arne Duncan going to spend $100 billion in stimulus money—almost twice the ...Posted by Fabrice Florin -
New African-American history course stretches student minds
Pittsburgh Oliver High School teacher Ken Smith doesn't want students to take history; he wants them "doing ...Posted by Dale Penn
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Florida Passes Anti-Bully Law
Florida Gov. Charlie Crist (R) is expected to sign legislation that would require school districts to prohibit ...Posted by Dale Penn
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Duncan details $150 billion education stimulus
CB: Mr. Secretary, the President's new stimulus plan includes a massive $150 billion increase in federal money for ...Posted by Dale Penn -
Should Teachers Ignore Poverty's Impact?
Owens described her effort to join the Philadelphia Teaching Fellows program, and her reaction to the prevailing ...Posted by Fabrice Florin -
Cookie-cutter schools don't improve student achievement
None of these explanations of why children learn requires that programs adopted in one school be the same as those ...Posted by Dwight Rousu
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The Guy with 'The Best Job in Public Education'
Despite being the son of a principal and a schoolteacher, Jed Wallace says he stumbled into teaching to pay the ...Posted by Dale Penn -
Crazy U.S. Thinking: Rampant Sexually Spread Diseases and No Talk About Sex!
Fueling the myth that sexual health education causes promiscuity is blood sport in traditionalists' sex-driven ...Posted by Dwight Rousu
