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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The number of students staying home sick with the flu is multiplying nationwide and normally quiet school nurses' offices suddenly look like big city emergency rooms, packed with students too ill to finish the day. The federal government has urged schools to close because of the swine flu only as a last resort. But schools are closing by the dozens as ...

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 ...

We are in the midst of a paradox in math education. As more states strive to improve math curricula and raise standardized test scores, more students show up to college unprepared for college-level math. In Maryland, 49 percent of high school graduates take noncredit remedial math courses in college, before they can take math courses for credit. In many cases, incoming ...

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 ...

Philippine remittance services have evolved significantly in the last 25 years. Arising from a need to send money home in a safe and reliable manner but held back by the high cost of transacting through banks, OFWs sought more economical means of sending money home.     The earliest and most common channel was the “padala” where money is sent ...

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 ...

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.

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." ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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.