Study chides D.C. teacher turnover
The District has higher-than-desirable teacher turnover, but a report released Nov. 8 finds that the public school system is succeeding in holding onto its best teachers at nearly…
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District’s ‘Teacher of the Year’ laid off
Michelle Apperson, recently awarded the title of "Teacher of the Year" for the Sacramento City Unified School District, has lost her job, the Huffington Post reports.
Amid massive budget cuts, teachers opt to work for free
A group of teachers at Benefield Elementary School in Lawrenceville, Ga. are offering free reading classes to students this summer, the Huffington Post reports.
Watch: Teachers find that higher degrees do not mean higher pay
A controversial Florida state law limits how new teachers may receive bonus pay based on advanced degrees, preventing an art teacher, for example, from earning a bonus for…
Meet the ‘worst’ 8th grade math teacher in NYC
For 10 months, Carolyn Abbott waited for the other shoe to drop. In April 2011, Abbott, who teaches mathematics to seventh- and eighth-graders at the Anderson School, a…
Maine teachers to get ‘financial literacy’ how-tos
Maine teachers will get some training on how to help their students manage money, the Associated Press reports.
California middle school teacher fired over porn film role
A Southern California middle school science teacher who once appeared in a porn film has been fired by her school district over concerns the issue could pose a…
Pink slips sent to more than 4,000 teachers
In a repeat of last year's mass layoffs, approximately 4,100 teachers in the Detroit Public Schools district received notices in the mail this week that they would need…
Philadelphia charter school fires entire teaching staff
Layoffs may be on the wane, but they haven't stopped entirely. Just ask the teachers at Philadelphia's Frontier Virtual Charter High School, the Huffington Post reports.
Watch: Atlanta teachers in cheating scandal could get another year contract
Atlanta Public Schools may be forced to renew the contracts of 90 tenured teachers implicated in one of the nation's largest cheating scandals because of job protection rights,…
$5 billion program would focus on teacher quality
The Obama administration is hoping that competition combined with cash will encourage states and school districts to improve the nation's teaching corps.
Five practices of effective principals
Strong leadership is essential to a positive school culture and student success, and effective principals use five key practices to ensure that their schools are successful, according to…
Initiative aims for 100,000 new STEM teachers
A new national movement aims to increase the supply of math and science teachers and retain excellent teachers currently in U.S. classrooms by preparing 100,000 new math and…
ED’s new partner in teacher recruitment: Microsoft
The U.S. Education Department (ED) is handing control of its online platform for teacher recruitment and retention, www.teach.gov, to software giant Microsoft Corp., the two organizations announced earlier…
Study: Student progress can be tied to teacher education
The academic progress of public school students can be traced, in part, to where their teachers went to college, according to new research by the University of Washington…
Earn national recognition through one of our many ed-tech awards programs
To help educators, schools, and even ed-tech companies receive the credit they deserve for their success, we've created a number of awards programs. These programs aim to highlight…
Rotten apples: Coping with educators who cheat
A problem that has plagued schools in Atlanta, Pennsylvania, the District of Columbia, and elsewhere could further erode confidence in public education—just when schools need all the support…
Ten things every new teacher should know
We recently asked readers: “What's the one thing you wish your education professors had told you about teaching or classroom management?” Here are our readers' top 10 pieces…
ED to unions, districts: Can’t we all just get along?
Despite frequent reports of labor-management strife in the nation’s schools, there are many school systems in which teachers and district leaders are working together to improve public education—and…
How to raise student achievement through better labor-management collaboration
Laura Rico, union president for California’s ABC Unified School District, said the idea of collaboration between labor and management was “very risky—even political suicide.” But the partnership has…
Wisconsin protests grow as teachers balk at proposed legislation
Republicans who swept into power in state capitols this year with promises to cut spending and bolster the business climate now are beginning to usher in a new…
D.C. schools to use data from teacher evaluation system in new ways
Although the main purpose of the District's new teacher evaluation system is to rate teachers' effectiveness, officials are beginning to use the fresh troves of data it generates…
Plan offered to overhaul discipline of teachers
Teachers accused of misconduct should have their cases decided within a speedy 100 days by a special examiner and not be cast into an interminable limbo of waiting,…
Many see influence of teachers union in Gov. Jerry Brown’s shakeup of California Board of Education
In one of Gov. Jerry Brown's first official acts this week, he sacked the majority of the state Board of Education, replacing several vocal proponents of charter schools,…
Obama’s deputy CTO leaves to launch start-ups
Andrew McLaughlin, the nation's deputy chief technology officer, said Wednesday he is resigning his post to launch two start-ups aimed at technology development in communities in the United…
A ‘highly qualified’ gift from Congress to Teach for America
Should teachers still in training programs be considered “highly qualified” to teach kids? The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit recently ruled that they aren’t, but…
New effort aims to turn teacher education ‘upside down’
Eight states are beginning a national pilot program to transform teacher education and preparation to emphasize far more in-field, intensive training—as is common practice in medical schools.
Obama calls for more STEM teachers, longer school year
Barely into the new school year, President Barack Obama issued a tough-love message to students and teachers on Sept. 27: Their year in the classroom should be longer,…
Education Department grants $442M for teacher merit pay
The federal Education Department is giving school districts and nonprofit organizations from across the country $442 million to create merit pay programs for teachers and principals, reports the…
Are qualified teachers always effective teachers?
Amid a growing consensus that “highly qualified” doesn’t necessarily mean “highly effective,” a movement is under way to reshape how the nation views successful teaching.
Survey: Staff development is top ed-tech challenge
Making sure staff members have the professional development they need to ensure effective 21st-century education is the top challenge facing school district CTOs, according to a recent survey.
Andreessen-founded Ning cuts staff, free service
Uh-oh. Just a month after Gina Bianchini, co-founder of build-a-social-network service Ning, departed the company, it's cutting 40 percent of its staff and axing its free, ad-supported service,…
Researcher: College CIO shortage on the horizon
Wayne Brown’s seven years of research has identified a wide swath of campus technology officials eager to become chief information officers someday. They’re just not quite sure how.
Utah school district unveils new teacher web rules
The Granite, Utah, school district is considering a new social-networking policy that would forbid employees from fraternizing with students online, including being Facebook friends, reports the Salt Lake…
Arkansas TIEs into technology training
How do you get a whole state integrating technology effectively into teaching and learning? How do you get teachers excited about using new technology and saying things like,…
Girls might learn math anxiety from female teachers
Young girls might learn to fear math from the women who are their earliest teachers, new research suggests.
Volunteers honor MLK Day by helping schools with technology
To help meet schools' technology needs, several educators and web professionals volunteered their expertise during the Martin Luther King Day Technology Challenge on Jan. 18.
AFT: Education must change to move forward
Moving public education to a model that will better prepare students for today's knowledge economy, and one that will strengthen teacher development and evaluation, is critical to the…
Do we need more male teachers?
Ronald Maggiano is somewhat unusual in the teaching profession, the Washington Post reports. That is because he is male.