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School’s Shake-Up Is Embraced by the President

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A Rhode Island school board’s decision to fire the entire faculty of a poorly performing school, and President Obama’s endorsement of the action, has stirred a storm of reaction nationwide, with teachers condemning it as an insult and conservatives hailing it as a watershed moment of school accountability.

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Seasonal affective disorder increasingly a workplace issue

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Some employees seek adjustments for SAD, serious depression triggered by limited daylight. One teacher sued a school district that refused to move her from a windowless basement room.

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Rhode Island school nears compromise on mass teacher firings

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The decision last month to replace the teaching staff at the end of the school year cast the spotlight on a new Obama administration policy: To qualify for a share of $3.5 billion in federal turnaround aid, local officials must close the struggling school or replace the principal and start over with a new academic game plan and perhaps a new staff. That significantly tightens accountability measures under the 2002 No Child Left Behind law.

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Survey: Supportive leadership helps retain top teachers

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A national survey of more than 40,000 public school teachers suggests that while higher salaries are far more likely than performance pay to help keep top talent in the classroom, supportive leadership trumps financial incentives.

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Obama angers union officials with remarks in support of R.I. teacher firings

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President Obama voiced support Monday for the mass firings of educators at a failing Rhode Island school, drawing an immediate rebuke from teachers union officials whose members have chafed at some of his education policies.

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Layoffs loom for teachers: education secretary

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Many teachers and educators across the United States are at risk of losing their jobs in the next few months, the nation's education secretary told a meeting of the National Governors Association on Sunday.

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Religious conflict leads to teacher's suspension

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.newsobserver.com (Views: 23, Clicks: 10)
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A Wake County middle-school teacher may be fired after she and her friends made caustic remarks on a Facebook page about her students, the South and Christianity.

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Texas: Student Failure Could Cost Jobs

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Houston Independent School District trustees approved a plan to allow the termination of teachers whose students consistently fail to improve on standardized tests.

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Attention, Gates: Here's What Makes a Great Teacher

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James D. Starkey writes on qualities of a 'great' teacher.

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400 teachers may face firing over test scores

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.chron.com (Views: 17, Clicks: 5)
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HISD Superintendent Terry Grier is asking the school board to give final approval today to a policy that would allow the district to fire teachers whose students don't make enough progress on standardized tests.

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Teach for America's federal funds threatened by grant competition proposal

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Teach for America, which enlists recent college graduates for two-year stints in some of the nation's most troubled public schools, would lose its uncontested claim on $18 million in federal funding under an Obama administration proposal to launch a grant competition for teacher training programs.

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Oklahoma City school board talks money saving options for district

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Oklahoma City schools Superintendent Karl Springer brought forward a number of options the district may consider this school year to cope with a nearly $4 million budget shortfall in state funding.

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Oklahoma educators may apply for park ranger course

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The Chickasaw National Recreation Area is one of about 100 national parks participating in the Teacher to Ranger to Teacher program, an eight-week experience in which one teacher works as a uniformed park ranger while developing classroom lesson plans and helping the national park with outreach programs.

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Tulsa Public Schools announces 161 positions to be eliminated

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.tulsaworld.com (Views: 23, Clicks: 7)
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Superintendent Keith Ballard’s plan for a reduction in force at Tulsa Public Schools would eliminate 114 employees’ positions and an additional 47 vacant ones.

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Study: Female teachers' math anxiety affects girl students

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.chicagotribune.com (Views: 28, Clicks: 0)
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Women teachers' anxiety about math may undermine girls' confidence in learning the subject and decrease their performance in fields that depend on a grasp of math fundamentals, such as science and engineering, research at the University of Chicago shows.

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