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Controversy Surrounds White House Push for Increased Teacher Accountability- ABCNews

As the Obama administration tackles an ambitious education reform agenda controversy continues to surround one key question: How do you ensure all students have access to great teachers? ...Read more



 
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Students at L.A. middle school get computers to ta

Sixth-graders at Stevenson Middle School in Boyle Heights will get personal notebook computers to take home as part of a pilot program to provide technology to low-income students....Read more



 
MrTom
6 - 8 Engl
California
I think that's great as long as those computers are monitored for the correct usage. Lots of middle school students simply go on for Myspace and to look at videos and pictures of non-educational material.

 
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Obama's Speech on Education Part 1

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MrTom
6 - 8 Engl CA

Teacher Suspended for Obama assassination lesson

An Alabama teacher has been suspended after a geometry lesson on the best angles to assassinate President Obama...Read more



 
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Students go a year without English Teacher

How do 20 students go a full year without an English teacher? Answer: Through lies, a conniving principle, unions and a teacher shortage....Read more



 
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Which students suffer most from teacher layoffs?

With cash-strapped systems across the country resorting to laying off teachers, there is increasing concern over which teachers are being let go and why....Read more



 
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Our Say: Student achievement should play role in t

Sometimes it takes a little bribery to nudge people into adopting good ideas. Take the Obama administration's Race to the Top program, and the question of whether student performance should play a role in the evaluations...Read more



 
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Colorado's teacher-evaluation law may mark a natio

The law ties teachers' job reviews to the performances of their students on achievement tests. Similar legislation is pending in other states; federal dollars may be at stake....Read more



 
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Roosevelt High Teacher gives here students a revie

Just like in third grade, a dozen high-school juniors and seniors slant their papers to the right, with one corner pointed toward their stomachs. They pick up their pens or pencils...Read more



 
Vivek

300,000 Teachers could be layed off

US education secretary Arne Duncan warned the press today that as many as 300,000 teachers could lose their jobs this year if congress does not provide a bigger budget for education...Read more



 
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Popular teacher dismissed- chicagotribune.com

Calling a communication arts teacher everything from an inspiration to a mother figure, hundreds of students at Naperville Central High School are protesting what they allege is her unfair dismissal...Read more



 
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Considering Separate but Equal on PBS- NYTimes.com

You could listen to a lot of dry lectures by a lot of windy history professors and still not learn as much about race issues in the century after the CivilWar as you do in “A Place Out of Time: The Bordentown School.”...Read more



 
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Students protest UCLA's choice of commencement spe

Man, UCLA sure is a tough gig. LA Weekly reports that for the second year in a row, students are protesting the school's commencement speaker. Last year, they complained that actor James Franco ...Read more



 
they should just be grateful to have such good speakers

 
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Teacher admits affair with pupil

Thomas Docherty, 51, of High Street, Innerleithen, quit his post at Newbattle High School in Dalkeith when the relationship was exposed. ...Read more



 
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California School Guide- LATimes.com

Test scores, demographics and comments about California's schools....Read more



 
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Georgetown Learning Centers rides for-profit educa

A couple learning how to improve their tutoring business in this tough economic times....Read more



 
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Contract talks with Oakland teachers stall again-

OAKLAND — Any hope that the Oakland school district will resolve its teacher contract dispute before the end of the school year — or the fall semester — has just grown dimmer. ...Read more



 
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100,000 teachers nationwide face layoffs

Senior congressional Democrats and the Obama administration scrambled Wednesday to line up support for $23 billion in federal aid to avert an estimated 100,000 or more school layoffs in a brutal year for education budgets coast to coast. ...Read more



 
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Is the public turning against teacher unions?

Kurt Schmoke, the former mayor of Baltimore who helped broker the contract agreement between D.C. schools and its teachers union, had strong words for those who wanting to improve education. “Stop demonizing the unions,”...Read more



 
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Flaws in California's English-language programs pl

Nearly 60% of English language learners in California’s high schools have failed to become proficient in the language despite more than six years of a U.S. education, according to a study released Thursday....Read more



 

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