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Elizabeth Green -- "There are more than three million teachers in the United States, and Doug Lemov is trying to prove that he can teach them to be better."

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TPS workers ask board not to cut their positions

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Nilda Reyes, director of diversity and equity; Marvin Jeter, assistant superintendent for school innovation; and Yalonda Berry, a team leader in the district's before- and after-school care program, all appealed for their jobs to be saved at the due-process hearing.

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National STEM program increases reach

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President Barack Obama on Jan. 6 announced the expansion of the Educate to Innovate program he launched last November, including the creation of several new partnerships to help attract, develop, reward, and retain outstanding STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) teachers.

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From his sickbed, Garfield High legend is still delivering

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Jaime Escalante, 79, the math teacher who was the basis for the 1988 film 'Stand and Deliver,' is battling cancer. But he still has some lessons to impart.

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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

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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

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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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Building a Better Teacher

TPS workers ask board not to cut their positions

National STEM program increases reach

From his sickbed, Garfield High legend is still delivering

School’s Shake-Up Is Embraced by the President

Seasonal affective disorder increasingly a workplace issue

Rhode Island school nears compromise on mass teacher firings

Survey: Supportive leadership helps retain top teachers

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

Layoffs loom for teachers: education secretary

Religious conflict leads to teacher's suspension

Texas: Student Failure Could Cost Jobs

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

400 teachers may face firing over test scores

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

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