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He usually wakes before dawn, before the call he knows will come, the call that will alert him that a teacher is out, a school needs help. He listens to the voice on the other end of the telephone and jots down the assignment on a small calendar, dresses, then drives to work and faces a new day. John Outlaw, 86, ...

If Alaska parents want to home-school their child, no paperwork needs to be filed, no phone call made. No one need be told. As for the student, no specific subjects need to be studied, no number of hours need be logged behind a desk, no tests taken. No one even knows how many Alaska children stay home instead of attending a ...

KENT, Wash. – Teachers and students in the Kent School District head back to class Tuesday after voting overwhelmingly for a new contract.

Interactive Web-based science tutorials can be effective tools for helping elementary school teachers construct powerful explanatory models of difficult scientific concepts, and research shows the interactive tutorials are just as effective online as they are in face-to-face settings, says a University of Illinois expert in science education. David Brown, a professor of curriculum and instruction in the College of Education, said ...

Alison Nye taught kindergarten and first grade for 27 years in the Lawrence school district. She wanted a challenge and when she heard about the new learning coach program the district started in 2008, Nye thought it would be a job she would like. “I’ve always loved working with student teachers, working in that capacity, building their capacity as well,” Nye ...

What will probably be the largest black bear shot either in Minnesota or Wisconsin this fall was taken last weekend by Rhonda Anderson of Sarona, Wis., a fourth-grade school teacher. The animal weighed 658 pounds live weight, 564 dressed. Anderson was in a four-person party that included her husband, Brian. They were hunting behind three Walker hounds and a Plott hound ...

As aging baby boomers retire from the classroom, there should be plenty of newly trained teachers coming up to replace them. By 2014, the country's 95,000 public schools will need to hire as many as a million teachers and principals. More than half will be trained at education colleges. But will they be prepared for the classroom? Probably not, shortchanging another ...

AUSTIN, TX – For the $300 million spent on merit pay for teachers over the last three years, Texas was hoping for a big boost in student achievement. But it didn't happen with the now-defunct program, according to experts hired by the state. The Texas Educator Excellence Grant, or TEEG, plan did not produce the academic improvements that proponents – including ...

Dear Leanna: My son and his friends have been talking about a tattoo on their geometry teacher's breast. I'm appalled she can distract students this way. I called the principal to complain, but he said it wasn't his job to police teachers' tattoos and told me to take it up with the teachers' union. When I called the union rep, she ...

by WTOP Did the D.C. schools chancellor break the law when she fired hundreds of teachers earlier this month? That's what D.C. Council members are saying after revelations during a very heated council hearing Thursday afternoon. Michelle Rhee told the D.C. City Council she ignored their mandate to cut funds from next year's summer school program and instead fired hundreds of ...

The United States spends more money than any other country, and its elite institutions are the world's best. But overall the system is wasteful, fails too many — and is falling behind other countries. No, the topic isn't health care — it's higher education. The latest stinging report came last week from a state colleges group arguing the United States isn't ...

Tens of thousands of Texas teachers could be in jeopardy of losing their jobs if they aren't certified as "highly qualified." The Texas Education Agency said the U.S. Department of Education cited the state for not requiring new teachers, primarily at the elementary level, to be tested according to revised federal requirements. 

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Closing schools and day care centers because of swine flu could cost between $10 billion and $47 billion, a report by the Brookings Institution think tank found. The government is urging schools to close only as a last resort, such as when large numbers of kids or staffers come down with swine flu. But in the month since classes began, many ...

WASHINGTON — A Senate committee voted Tuesday night to restore $50 million a year in federal funding for abstinence-only education that President Barack Obama has pushed to eliminate. The 12-11 vote by the Senate Finance Committee came over objections from its chairman, Democratic Sen. Max Baucus of Montana. Two Democrats — Kent Conrad of North Dakota and Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas ...

PHILADELPHIA — The Rev. Al Sharpton and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich don't agree on much, but a meeting with a group of inner-city charter school students on Tuesday left them with the same impression: There is hope for improving the U.S. education system. "We may disagree about other issues, but this is a place where we have a common" goal, ...

You just never know what people will complain about. And, as libraries across the region put up displays and hand out pamphlets to educate lenders about Banned Books Week — it runs from Sept. 26 to Oct. 3 this year — they shared some anecdotes about what kinds of books folks have had concerns about. 

 Arnold said schools are looking for ways to give students more choices at a time when teachers and classes are being cut. “Schools all over the country are being affected by the economy and budget cuts,’’ Arnold said. “Advanced Placement and enrichment courses are often the first to get cut because they are not required. That’s one of the reasons they ...

 he Gist: It seems like a scene from Oliver Twist — a young pupil being beaten by a 300-lb man wielding an inch-thick wooden paddle — but according to a new report by Human Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union, nearly a quarter of a million children were subjected to corporal punishment in public schools in the U.S. during the 2006-2007 ...

U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan plans to challenge educators, civil rights groups and others to put aside "tired arguments" about education reform to help him craft a sweeping reauthorization of federal education legislation by early 2010. In a speech to be delivered Thursday in Washington to more than 150 education, business, civil rights, charitable and social services groups, Duncan plans to ...