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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 ...

Halloween has morphed into a gore fest that has kids as young as 6 unleashing their inner monsters in ultra-violent costumes - blood-smeared chain saws and spiked killing gloves sold separately. Options include Leatherface from "Texas Chainsaw Massacre," Jason ("Friday the 13th"), Freddy ("A Nightmare on Elm Street") and Michael ("Halloween"). Costume sizes can run so small that many wearers ...

Halloween is a whole lot of fun, and mostly because anyone can dress up as anything they like! Costumes range from fun to cute to spectacular to scary. Some tiny kids costumes have lately become pretty scary. Here are some examples of gory costumes for kids. What do you think? Have these costumes crossed the line? See the costumes here and ...

An office secretary at Palmer Elementary School was charged Monday with false imprisonment and child abuse after allegedly taping the mouth and hands of a student. Jennifer Carter, 45, was arrested and issued a criminal summons on the misdemeanor charges. She is accused of binding a rowdy 6-year-old with duct tape on Thursday. He had been sent to the principal's office ...

 Rhythm, Rhyme, Results, a supplementary educational materials provider has just announced a new streaming service for schools and libraries.  This service became available October 20! RRR is offering the streaming service to schools for only 10 cents per student per month for a year!   See www.educationalrap.com for more information.  RRR boasts a library of 40 songs based on academic subjects ...

WASHINGTON — Not content with shaping education directly through schools, the biggest player in the school reform movement has an eye on moving education policy. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has spent around $200 million a year on grants to elementary and secondary education. Now the foundation is taking unprecedented steps to spend millions to influence the way the federal ...

Rachael Ray is partnering with New York City's Department of Education. The celebrity chef will visit a Manhattan school on Monday to launch her Rachel Ray Yum-o! Program. The city's school food program already offers many healthy meals but Ray will spice it up with such recipes as Southwest roasted chicken and sizzling soft tacos.

In sentencing the former head of a Northeast Philadelphia charter school to more than three years in prison for plundering its coffers, a federal judge yesterday called for more scrupulous government oversight of the taxpayer-funded charters so "this type of criminal activity is not allowed to be repeated." On one side of U.S. District Judge Eduardo C. Robreno's courtroom were a ...

President Obama declared the H1N1 flu outbreak a national emergency over the weekend, but experts in infectious disease and emergency medicine say the public should not be alarmed by the move. "This is not a reaction to any new developments; it's a proactive step, a useful tool going forward," White House spokesman Reid Cherlin says. Anne Schuchat, director of the Centers ...

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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Lisa A. Martin, 42, a sixth-grade language arts teacher at St. Margaret of York in Deerfield Township, “engaged in a deceitful and inappropriate relationship with a student during the 2007-08 school year by exchanging inappropriate text messages with the (female) student while assuming the identity of a fictitious boy,” according to Ohio Department of Education records.

School Superintendent Don Schlomann said classes opened on Monday with 611 students absent, with another 200 falling ill by the day's end. School started on Tuesday with 811 absent and finished with 972 out by the time classes ended. That represents about 45 percent of the 2,200 students at St. Charles East, Schlomann said.

Two out of five American teachers are disheartened and disappointed with their jobs, according to a new survey released today. Teachers in that 40 percent don't view their principals as supportive and have lots of worries about student behavior, testing and working conditions. On the upside, 37 percent of teachers are content with their jobs and their choice of profession and ...

At a time when President Barack Obama is pushing for more time in the classroom, his home state has created the nation's shortest school year under a new union contract that closes schools on most Fridays for the remainder of the academic calendar.

President Barack Obama visited a Maryland school Monday to congratulate the students and teachers on their hard work. Obama stopped by Viers Mill Elementary School outside Washington, where he met with third- and fourth-grade students during their lunch period. The school receives federal poverty aid and has been celebrated for closing the achievement gap between minority children and other students. The ...