Rookie teachers woefully unprepared, report says
The U.S. teacher training system is badly broken, turning out rookie educators who have little hands-on experience running classrooms and are quickly overwhelmed by the job, according to a report released Tuesday by the National Council on Teacher Quality.
Faces of the school district layoffs collected online
A new website, Facesofthelayoffs.org, catalogues the mugs and stories of laid-off employees.
Networking site helping teachers succeed
Husband and wife public schoolteachers Natasha and Adam McCabe have launched a site to help NYC teachers network professionally.
Boston teachers returns from 155-mile Sahara marathon in the wake of bombings
Having just wrapped up the marathon of a lifetime – a six-day ultra-marathon across the Moroccan Sahara Desert – Allston teacher Liz Byron’s homecoming Saturday night should have been an ecstatic experience. Instead, the 29-year-old runner returned to a battered city that is bent on bouncing back from a devastating terror attack.
Judge blocks Cuomo from withholding aid to city schools
A state supreme court judge ruled this week that the state cannot withhold $260 million in aid from the city’s [...]
Obama honors six educators killed in Newtown massacre with presidential medals
President Barack Obama, marking a poignant moment in his push to curb gun violence, awarded presidential medals posthumously on Friday [...]