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The Star-Ledger (Free subscription) | yesterday
A teacher at the Oak Knoll School in Summit was found dead dead in the woods behind a Japanese restaurant on Route 22 in Green Brook, the victim of an apparent suicide, authorities said today. Around 4 p.m. Thursday, employees...
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The Star-Ledger (Free subscription) | yesterday
A Superior Court judge today showed leniency toward a West Essex Regional High School teacher who had sex with a student - sentencing her to three years' probation instead of the one-year jail term sought by a prosecutor. "There is...
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Moving at the Speed of Creativity (Free subscription) | yesterday
I received a question via email from Tammy Parks in Howe, Oklahoma, recently, who just returned from BLC08 eager to setup a team blog for teachers at her school. Her question is: Our district would like to set-up a teacher blog site for each teacher to post a daily classroom summary. Initially, we would like [...]
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Chinalyst - China blogs in English (Free subscription) | yesterday
Following my previous post, there was curiosity on how I "got that American professor sacked." Actually, he wasn't a professor. He was an elementary schoolteacher in America who greatly leapt forward to being a graduate school teacher in China. So here is the story about an uneducated Chinese boss, an incompetent American teacher, and nasty, judgmental students in the mid 1980s. * * * The head of the...
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Washington Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
For Trinity Wilbourn, teaching high school via the Internet offers a heartening and maddening prism into the teenage mind-set.
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East Grinstead Courier (Free subscription) | yesterday
A Whitehill Infants School teacher enjoyed her final day after 17 years at the Crowborough primary school. Joyce Gillett, who joined Whitehill in 1991, was given a special retirement assembly and a hand made card by her pupils ...
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Norfolk Blogger (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
At the end of a school year teacher tend to get gifts from some children in their class, particularly when you teach young children. I am always extremely grateful for anything I receive, but there is one nagging fear in my mind every year, and that is how many cups will I get which say "World's best teacher" of "Great teacher" or "Favourite teacher" or any other variations thereof. This year I was...
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All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
Thousands of primary schools teachers yesterday staged a mass protest rally in Kano over the non-implementation of Teachers Salary Scale by the Federal Government, vowing not to call off the strike until the new salary structure is implemented.
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Primary Teacher UK (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
BBC Television is making a major three-part series called WOMEN about contemporary women’s lives. The series will look at the impact of feminism on contemporary women’s lives. The first episode will provide the background and will map the ideology of...
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New York Newsday (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
A Wantagh High School teacher broke her promise to a stay away from her teenage lover, and now should serve the maximum sentence for having sex with him, a Nassau prosecutor said Thursday.
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normblog (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Late last month I heard from friends that Raymond Suttle had died. He was my Latin teacher at school, and I have written about him before, in two posts of reminiscences about my years at Northlea School. Here I pay...
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Bristol Evening Post (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
The head teacher of an infants school in Clevedon has called time after 18 years in charge.
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IndyStar.com (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
Traveling halfway around the world was a life-changing experience for one North Central High School teacher. Elaine Wiggins and 160 teachers from across the country went to Japan in June, a trip paid for by the Japan Fulbright Memorial Fund.
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Strollerderby (Free subscription) | yesterday
Last summer, middle-school art teacher Aaron Mohanial was convicted of 13 counts of child abuse, molestation and lewd battery after a jury found him guilty of repeatedly raping a seventh-grade boy over a two-year period. He was sentenced to 43 years in jail. Now, a year later, Mohanial still hasn't seen the inside of a jail cell. Broward Circuit Judge Marc Gold, in a rare and surprising decision,...