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Allentown School Board approves cutting 154 jobs
Allentown School Board approved a curtailment of programs Thursday that eliminates 132 teachers and 12 administrators, pushing the financially challenged district to more than 400 jobs slashed over the past four years. The district's second curtailment...Tags: Allentown, Job Layoffs, American School for the Deaf, Teaching and Learning, Budgets and Budgeting
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Haynes Johnson, Pulitzer Prize winner, historian, professor, dies at 81
Capital News ServiceCOLLEGE PARK, Md. Haynes Johnson best-selling author, Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalist, historian and eminent professor at the University of Maryland's Philip Merrill College of Journalism died Friday. He was 81. He entered Suburban Hospital in...Tags: News Media, University System of Maryland, Medical Procedures and Tests, Bill Clinton, Teaching and Learning
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News-Press Editorial: Solving the turmoil at GCC
Glendale Community College trustees had a short-lived moment of relief this week, having approved a three-year contract with David Viar, who will serve as the school's new superintendent/president beginning this summer. Despite progress made on that...Tags: Teaching and Learning
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Littlest orator moves people on both sides of CPS debate
Tribune reporterJust 4-feet tall, the tiniest student protester stands on a chair to reach the podium. The microphone is adjusted downward so that he can speak to the crowds, who are sometimes stunned for a second—who is this kid?—and then electrified....Tags: Chicago Mayor, Dwayne Johnson, Karen Lewis, Chicago Teachers Union, Rahm Emanuel
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LETTER: Student Evaluations' Role
Administrators in our colleges and universities declare that student evaluations are necessary to give students a voice. They use student evaluations in decisions on hiring, awarding tenure and promoting professors. This is false in many cases. Students...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Academic Progress, Students
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Popular principal's dismissal leaves a South L.A. school divided
Third-grade teacher Kate Lewis said Irma Cobian is the best principal she's had in nine years at Weigand Avenue Elementary School in Watts. Joseph Shamel called Cobian a "godsend" who has used her mastery of special education to show him how to craft...
Tags: Lobbying, Teaching and Learning, here! (tv network), Elections, Students
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Graduation shows personal touch of counselors, teachers
Lyman High School's 458 graduates sat in alphabetical rows, tassels on their blue caps uniformly hanging to the right, eyes focused forward on the stage they were about to cross. In the moments before officially finishing high school, the seniors...
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Teachers could pay 'Obamacare' tax
The Newport-Mesa Unified School District is bracing for rising healthcare costs, including an anticipated $2.3-million tax increase, as part of the federal Affordable Care Act. That price tag has created a disagreement between the district's teachers...Tags: Health and Safety at School, Health Care Reform (2009), Teaching and Learning, Mountains, Landforms
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Hartford Schools' Announce 2013 Teacher Of The Year
The Hartford CourantMario Marrero's fourth-grade students believe their teacher is the best in "the whole wide world," in the proud words of one 9-year-old. Well, here's a start: the Betances STEM Magnet School educator has been named the city's 2013 Teacher of the Year....Tags: Windsor (Hartford, Connecticut), Avon (Hartford, Connecticut), South Windsor, Teaching and Learning
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FCAT writing scores rise, third-grade reading marks up slightly from 2012
Florida students wrote better essays on this year's FCAT than in 2012 and third-graders posted slightly higher marks on the state's key reading exam, scores released Friday show. The scores are the first wave of results from the 2013 administration of...
Tags: Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test, Orange County (Florida), Schools, Seminole County, Elementary Schools
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Maize teacher charged with making criminal threat
KWCH 12 Eyewitness NewsA Maize High School teacher made his first appearance in court Friday. Prosecutors charged James Stiverson with one count of making a criminal threat. He accused of making threats against a school administrator during a Maize High School soccer game....Tags: Prosecution, Teaching and Learning, Criminals
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D41 slated to reconsider ban on 'Perks of Being a Wallflower'
Special to the TribuneThe controversial book “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” is getting a second chance at Glen Ellyn School District 41 after being taken out of eighth-grade classrooms at Hadley Junior High last month. After weeks of passionate debate...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Libraries
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