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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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." ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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. 

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 ...

Teachers who telephone, e-mail or text their students can get in trouble in Louisiana and in some districts, reports Education Week. In an attempt to prevent sexual exploitation, districts are making it harder for school employees to contact students one on one. By Nov. 15, Louisiana teachers are supposed to document every electronic interaction with a student using “a nonschool-issued device, ...

Question: My kindergartner brought home a questionnaire that asks: Do you like your class? Do you have friends in your class? Does your teacher treat you like you want to be treated? Does your teacher help you learn and do new things? I'm supposed to read him the questions, which he then answers by coloring in a face with a smile, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...