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When Lilli Lackey started college, talk of a growing teacher shortage gave her confidence that a job would be waiting for her when she got out. Now, six months after graduating, she considers herself lucky just to find work as a substitute. Across the country, droves of people like Lackey are unable to find teaching jobs, in large part because the ...

Social engineers just can't help themselves when it comes to keeping their hands off your kids. Their latest plan is to base admissions to Chicago's most preferred public schools to a large degree on "socioeconomic" factors, such as the percentage of people who own homes in your neighborhood. As dumbfounding as this might seem, it's not all that surprising for an ...

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 ...

Between Craigslist and eBay, the Internet is well established as a marketplace where one person’s trash is transformed into another’s treasure. Now, thousands of teachers are cashing in on a commodity they used to give away, selling lesson plans online for exercises as simple as M&M sorting and as sophisticated as Shakespeare.

An ashen Mayor Daley said Monday he saw no indication that close friend and Chicago School Board President Michael Scott was troubled, saying Scott’s apparent death by gunshot wound to the head “is a shock for everyone.” “No, no. None whatsoever,” Daley said when asked if he sensed Scott was struggling with personal issues. “Mike was always helping people with troubles." ...

The AJC reported that despite cutbacks to education, the staff at the Georgia Lottery received substantial bonuses. The lottery funds pre-k and the HOPE Scholarship.

Amazon has  released a FREE version of the Kindle book reader for the PC. You can now download this software on your PC and read any Kindle book on your PC.  In a school setting, this can be an invaluable resource for FREE books as well.  There are literally thousands of classics on Kindle just waiting to be downloaded.  Go here ...

You might be all that’s preventing your gay student from dropping out. In 10th grade, Jeana Huie went through three sets of textbooks after bullies ripped them to shreds. She ate lunch in her car after kids threw her food to the cafeteria floor, and she avoided the bathroom in the Little Rock, Arkansas, public school after they shoved her face ...

It's called the "turkey drop" -- when first-year college students break up with their high school sweethearts over the Thanksgiving holiday. But there's a risk that freshmen might break up with their college, too. The turkey drop is just one of the precipitating factors. Homesickness, roommate conflicts, academic pressures, difficulty forming new friendships -- any of them can cause college freshmen ...

On January 8, 2002, President George Bush signed the No Child Left Behind Act, a 1,100-page, bipartisan overhaul of the largest federal education aid program. Originally launched in 1965 as the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), it has been revised and renamed periodically ever since. ESEA’s purpose was to provide extra money for schools educating low-income students. The Bush version, ...

Eighth-grade students at Mission Valley Middle School in Prairie Village will not let the firing of a beloved teacher fade quietly away. A group of about 50 cut classes today and demonstrated outside the school waving homemade signs urging drivers along Mission Road to "honk" their support for Ryan Haraughty, a science teacher who was fired Monday by the Shawnee Mission ...

A Goldsboro parent who helped come up with the idea to sell grades to raise money for a middle school defended the plan Wednesday, even as the school district shut it down. Deborah Breedlove, a member of the Rosewood Middle School parent advisory council, said the group was looking for an innovative way to raise money for badly needed equipment. The ...

A middle school in North Carolina is selling test scores to students in a bid to raise money. The News & Observer of Raleigh reported Wednesday that a parent advisory council at Rosewood Middle School in Goldsboro come up with the fundraising plan after last year's chocolate sale flopped. The school will sell 20 test points to students for $20. ...

Selling candy didn't raise much money last year, so a Goldsboro middle school is selling grades. A $20 donation to Rosewood Middle School will get a student 20 test points - 10 extra points on two tests of the student's choosing. That could raise a B to an A, or a failing grade to a D.

Selling candy didn't raise much money last year, so a Goldsboro middle school is selling grades. A $20 donation to Rosewood Middle School will get a student 20 test points - 10 extra points on two tests of the student's choosing. That could raise a B to an A, or a failing grade to a D.

 By BENEDICT CAREY  A new theory suggests that dreams are a warm-up for the day ahead. 

 By Robert Lloyd Beyond ABCs and 1, 2, 3, a multicultural cast and iconic puppets have entertained and educated generations of kids.