In a story in Sunday's Arizona Republic, Alia Beard Rau described efforts by lawmakers to pass a law that would limit teachers' words in their classrooms.
In a direct confrontation between church and state, the New York Department of Education has enacted a ban upon local church congregations utilizing space in the state's public…
The Chicago Tribune recently reported that the Chicago Public Schools system has changed its position on the website YouTube, write Brad Boeker for Yahoo! News.
According to the Daily Ticker, the California State Teachers Retirement System has sent a letter to Facebook as a potential investor in the company complaining about how much…
The Daily Caller reports a millionaire public school teacher in New York is keeping his lucrative paychecks and adding to his pension despite being kicked out of the…
On the question of students, teachers, and social networking, CNN's Schools of Thought blog posed this question on Jan. 20: Do you think there are more benefits or…
The U.S. Department of Education announced its acceptance of 2012 Teaching Ambassador Fellows applications in a Jan. 23 post on its official blog, Homeroom, Yahoo! News reports.
In a joint effort between the U.S. Department of Education and the Close Up Foundation, 50-100 teachers from across the country will meet with the Department's Teaching Ambassador…
A December 2011 article in the New York Times highlighted teachers in Washington, D.C. who were rewarded with large cash bonuses and significant pay raises, says Todd Pheifer…
Here's something that could make Windows 8 a lot more fun to use—a system that gives you the power to navigate the computer with your eyes, Yahoo! News…
A recent article in The Los Angeles Times tells of a superintendent in a Kentucky school who is rather miffed that the state of Kentucky does not afford…
YouTube has an enormous collection of educational clips that could be used by teachers, but many schools choose to block the site so that kids won't be able…
Ohio Gov. John Kasich's administration on Dec. 13 will release a report detailing teacher perceptions on performance based pay, says a columnist for Yahoo! News.
The American education system is broken. Politicians, educators and parents have debated how to reform public schools in the U.S. for the nearly 20 years, yet little to…
Teacher salaries have recently been a major source of contention for both public employees and the public at large. Though not a groundbreaking revelation, the New York Times…