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The National Education Association (NEA) is spending $15 million to get pro-education candidates elected in November, while the Californi...

I returned home from my trip to Mexico just a week before school started, having heard that San Francisco Unified School District really did...

When people hear I’m high school teacher they often respond, “Wow, that must be tough!” and it is, but not for the reasons one might think...

According to anti-teacher pundits and demagogues, teachers unions are bad for students because collective bargaining agreements protect bad ...

In the U.S., we have a plethora of philosophies and methods for educating and raising children, but when things go wrong, particularly for t...

Massachusetts teachers in the King Phillip Regional School District, Norfolk County, are protesting a contract dispute with their district o...

Most teachers are not bad, but the constant harping about bad teachers has created a mass hysteria that our schools are filled with incompet...

'The Simpsons' Controversial Opening Credit by Banksy Pulled Down

Another disturbing trend I discovered during my first year of teaching was that most of my classes had more students earning Ds and Fs than ...

A funny, scary 'education' conversation , posted by Valerie Strauss, at WaPo.