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Sandy Lobel-Witlen is about to take on a fourth job. ``I have to because I can't afford to live on a teacher's salary,'' said Lobel-Witlen, who has been teaching in Broward County for 14 years. In addition to teaching kindergarten, she earns extra money working in before- and after-care. And soon, she'll be working nights and weekends for the U.S. Census ...

Indiana colleges have started re-examining how they teach the state's future teachers, prodded by rising numbers of teachers who are trained through other programs and bypass traditional education schools. Fast-track programs for those who want to teach without a bachelor's in education have been around for a while, but the popularity of Teach For America and The New Teacher Project have ...

RACINE, Wis. — Students at Starbuck Middle School stumbled through the halls just after lunch on Oct. 31, 2007, holding their bellies and moaning. When the vomiting began, teachers knew that it wasn't a Halloween prank. By midafternoon, almost 70 children waited outside the nurse's office at the school near Milwaukee. "There were so many kids there, it was like, 'Holy ...