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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 ...