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• Cuomo: New York teacher evaluations system is 'baloney' - Syracuse.com

  21-01-2015 22:37
  
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  Cuomo: New York teacher evaluations system is 'baloney'
  Syracuse.com
  ALBANY -- Gov. Andrew Cuomo has proposed making it harder for teachers to get the job protection of tenure and easier to remove educators who are incompetent or engaged in misconduct. He also proposed revising teacher evaluations with half their ...
  Gov. Wants Attaining Teacher Tenure to be More DifficultWROC-TV
  
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• Teacher shortage: Questions from Daugaard - Sioux Falls Argus Leader

  21-01-2015 21:32
  
  Sioux Falls Argus Leader
  Teacher shortage: Questions from Daugaard
  Sioux Falls Argus Leader
  Public school officials want solutions to what they say is a salary-driven teacher shortage in South Dakota, but Gov. Dennis Daugaard might not be their man. Daugaard has expressed caution in confronting the shortage, but K-12 leaders responded Tuesday ...
  
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• Former teacher who had sex with student to be released from prison - KPRC Houston

  21-01-2015 21:10
  
  Former teacher who had sex with student to be released from prison
  KPRC Houston
  Reporter: MIRANDA SAYS... DO YOU REMEMBER THIS PARTICULAR FACE? SHE WAS THE 8th GRADE TEACHER AT MEMORIAL MIDDLE SCHOOL WHO WENT TO JAIL AFTER HAVING SEX WITH ONE OF HER STUDENTS. TODAY THAT TEACHER ...
  
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• Teacher pay: What are the options? - Sioux Falls Argus Leader

  21-01-2015 20:54
  
  Teacher pay: What are the options?
  Sioux Falls Argus Leader
  South Dakota has the lowest average teacher salaries in the United States, but the Gov. Dennis Daugaard wonders whether it's completely to blame. In a Monday interview with "100 Eyes," he also questioned the nature of the shortage and how it affects ...
  
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• State's top teacher wants to shatter bully stereotypes - Detroit Free Press

  21-01-2015 20:26
  
  State's top teacher wants to shatter bully stereotypes
  Detroit Free Press
  Michigan's top teacher is trying to shatter the perceptions kids have about bullies. So she wrote a book about it. Melody Arabo, named in May as the Michigan Teacher of the Year, said kids often have an exaggerated picture in their head of the ...
  
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• Williamston counselors, students meet after teacher arrest - Lansing State Journal

  21-01-2015 19:52
  
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  Williamston counselors, students meet after teacher arrest
  Lansing State Journal
  WILLIAMSTON – The school district is working to provide answers to parents and students following the arrest Monday of a high school biology teacher on child pornography charges. Williamston High School biology teacher Jim Preston was charged ...
  High school teacher facing child porn chargesDetroit Free Press
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• DATABASE: Average teacher salaries by district in the Lehigh Valley - lehighvalleylive.com

  21-01-2015 19:02
  
  DATABASE: Average teacher salaries by district in the Lehigh Valley
  lehighvalleylive.com
  Up first, you can find out the average teacher and administrator salary in your district, the top pay, the lowest pay. The average teacher salary in Pennsylvania for 2012-13 was $63,52 while the average U.S. teacher salary was $56,383, according to the ...
  
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• Oklahoma teacher fired after fake-joint photo circulates - NewsOK.com

  21-01-2015 18:27
  
  Oklahoma teacher fired after fake-joint photo circulates
  NewsOK.com
  Miami Assistant Superintendent Randy Darr declined to identify the teacher, but did acknowledge he has seen the photograph. “We regret the attention this post has gained,” Darr said. “In particular since we have 300 hardworking and professional ...
  
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• Bullitt teacher who dragged student reinstated - The Courier-Journal

  21-01-2015 18:12
  
  The Courier-Journal
  Bullitt teacher who dragged student reinstated
  The Courier-Journal
  The outside tribunal's judgment last month to overrule Superintendent Keith Davis' decision puts the school district in a difficult spot as it tries to figure out what to do with a teacher it has publicly said had "egregious behavior" in dealing with a ...
  Teacher caught on camera dragging 1st grader down school hallwayWTVD-TV
  Kentucky School Teacher Caught Dragging Six-Year-Old Along School
  
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• Ex-Spring Branch teacher sentenced in sex assault case - Chron.com

  21-01-2015 18:01
  
  Chron.com
  Ex-Spring Branch teacher sentenced in sex assault case
  Chron.com
  A former Spring Branch ISD teacher is expected to be released within days after being sentenced Wednesday to two years behind bars for sexual assault of a child and improper relationship with a student. Because Kathryn Camille Murray has spent two ...
  Former Spring Branch ISD teacher sentenced for sex with studentKHOU
  
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• 8th Grade Science Teacher Compares Common Core To 'Child Abuse' - Business Insider

  21-01-2015 17:48
  
  Business Insider
  8th Grade Science Teacher Compares Common Core To 'Child Abuse'
  Business Insider
  An 8th grade science teacher at a Long Island, New York public school is refusing to administer Common Core tests, comparing the state-mandated exams to "child abuse," The Long Island Press reports. Comsewogue School District teacher Beth Dimino ...
  L.I. Teacher Refuses To Administer Common Core Tests, Urges Others To Join HerLong Island Press
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• Teacher compensation top 2015 issue for NC Public School Forum - News & Observer

  21-01-2015 17:15
  Teacher compensation top 2015 issue for NC Public School Forum
  News & Observer
  Teacher compensation was the top item in the Public School Forum of North Carolina's Top 10 Education Issues for 2015 report released Wednesday. Keith Poston, the Raleigh education think tank's executive director, pointed to how the average salary for ...
  
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• Teacher tells Congress: 'The federal incentives in education are wrong' - Washington Post (blog)

  21-01-2015 17:13
  
  Teacher tells Congress: 'The federal incentives in education are wrong'
  Washington Post (blog)
  Here is testimony given by a public school teacher at Wednesday's hearing on the rewriting of No Child Left Behind by the Senate education committee, chaired by Sen. Lamar Alexander, Republican of Tennessee and a former U.S. secretary of education.
  
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• State Of The Union: A Quick Wrap On Education

  21-01-2015 17:03 via npr.org
  
  Good news about graduation rates, and more about Obama's plan for making community college free.
  
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• Move Over Bureaucrats. In Wisconsin, Teachers Are Setting Their Own Standards. - Slate Magazine (blog)

  21-01-2015 16:09
  
  Slate Magazine (blog)
  Move Over Bureaucrats. In Wisconsin, Teachers Are Setting Their Own Standards.
  Slate Magazine (blog)
  Last spring, as the school year was coming to a close, most of Michelle Breitenfeldt's kindergarteners were not reading at grade level. But that did not stop the Wisconsin teacher from setting an ambitious goal for herself this school year: 80 percent ...
  
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• Major districts ignore student performance in teacher evaluations, study finds - Los Angeles Times

  21-01-2015 16:06
  
  Major districts ignore student performance in teacher evaluations, study finds
  Los Angeles Times
  Two others, Upland Unified in the Inland Empire and San Ramon Valley in Contra Costa County, were "blatantly in violation" of the law by expressly prohibiting the use of state standardized test scores in their teacher evaluations, the study said. The ...
  
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• Prosecutors charge that Fife teacher wanted to 'cuddle' with girl, 15 - TheNewsTribune.com

  21-01-2015 15:52
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  Prosecutors charge that Fife teacher wanted to 'cuddle' with girl, 15
  TheNewsTribune.com
  Pierce County prosecutors Monday charged a 33-year-old Fife teacher with sending sexually suggestive notes to a 15-year-old girl by text message and Twitter. Eric Spry, a teacher at Columbia Junior High School, pleaded not guilty to one felony count of ...
  Fife teacher accused of sending student inappropriate messagesKING5.com
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• School Districts Turn to Teachers to Lead - Education Week News

  21-01-2015 15:00
  
  School Districts Turn to Teachers to Lead
  Education Week News
  Marilyn Boerke, the principal of Liberty Middle School in Camas, Wash., a district of 6,400 students along the Columbia River, applauds the district's philosophy that encourages teachers to serve in school leadership roles and actively creates ...
  
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• Jeannine Hoeffel: 1929-2015; Teacher went overseas to give classes on military ... - Toledo Blade

  21-01-2015 06:05
  
  Jeannine Hoeffel: 1929-2015; Teacher went overseas to give classes on military ...
  Toledo Blade
  Longtime educator Jeannine Hoeffel, who taught at several area schools and abroad with the U.S. military, died Friday at Ebeid Hospice due to complications with fibromyalgia treatment. She was 85. “Teaching was in her blood,” her brother Gerald Hoeffel ...
  
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• School Districts Turn to Teachers to Lead - Education Week

  21-01-2015 06:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Rising demands of the job push principals to tap into talents of teaching corps.
  
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• Ed. Dept. Overdue on Issuing Teacher-Placement Report - Education Week

  21-01-2015 06:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The U.S. Department of Education is more than a year late in releasing a congressionally mandated report on who is teaching the nation's most underserved students.
  
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• Crawford teacher charged with having sex with student - GoErie.com

  21-01-2015 02:22
  
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  Crawford teacher charged with having sex with student
  GoErie.com
  Robert C. Schmidt, 46, of McKean, leaves the court of McKean District Judge Denise Stuck-Lewis on Jan. 20 after he was arraigned on charges of institutional sexual assault and corruption of a minor. State police accuse Schmidt, a teacher at Cambridge ...
  Cambridge Springs teacher charged with having sex with studentMeadville Tribune
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• Police: Stroudsburg music teacher had sexual relationship with student, 16 - Allentown Morning Call

  21-01-2015 02:11
  
  Allentown Morning Call
  Police: Stroudsburg music teacher had sexual relationship with student, 16
  Allentown Morning Call
  Police say a Stroudsburg Area School District music teacher fired last month had sexual contact with a 16-year-old student in his office at the intermediate school and at a private home, and sent her on average 142 messages a day over a 20-month period.
  Music Teacher Hit With Sex Chargeswnep.com
  New details in Stroudsburg teacher sex scandalWFMZ Allentown
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• Final goodbye for Norman High teacher who died suddenly - KOCO Oklahoma City

  21-01-2015 02:09
  
  KOCO Oklahoma City
  Final goodbye for Norman High teacher who died suddenly
  KOCO Oklahoma City
  Greg Hildebrand, a science teacher at Norman High School, fell ill while teaching class Thursday morning. “He was taken by ambulance to the hospital,” said school spokesperson Shelly Hickman. Students who worried after watching their teacher whisked ...
  
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• Williamston HS teacher facing child porn charges - Lansing State Journal

  21-01-2015 00:39
  
  Williamston HS teacher facing child porn charges
  Lansing State Journal
  WILLIAMSTON – A Williamston High School biology teacher was arraigned Tuesday on child pornography charges. Jim Preston was arrested Monday night after he turned himself in at the Williamston police station, said Police Chief Bob Young. Preston was ...
  
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• Mom angry that Marion Co. teacher who spit on her daughter still in classroom - WFTV Orlando

  21-01-2015 00:04
  
  Mom angry that Marion Co. teacher who spit on her daughter still in classroom
  WFTV Orlando
  She said when she didn't get anywhere with administrators she reported the incident to the Florida Department of Children and Families and wrote a letter to the district demanding that the teacher be punished. "Had it been my child spitting on another ...
  
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