News Briefs
A state board has voted unanimously to keep a nearly 40-year-old policy that guarantees cost-of-living increases to pension payments for retired Georgia teachers.
December 1, 2008
The life of Cobb County, Ga., educator Brad Cohen will be the subject of a “Hallmark Hall of Fame” movie scheduled to air on CBS.
December 1, 2008
Schools wishing to hire more-effective teachers could benefit from collecting a broader set of information on their candidates, a new paper says.
November 25, 2008
States that have a “genuine” alternative route to teacher certification attract more minority teachers, says a study scheduled to be published this month in the journal Education Next.
November 18, 2008
Several teachers in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg, N.C., school district face discipline for posting images and material on the social-networking site Facebook that school leaders find objectionable, including one teacher who wrote, “I hate my students!”
November 17, 2008
Voters in Oakland, Calif., have rejected a tax measure that was intended to raise millions for teachers’ salaries and charter schools.
November 10, 2008
Children in high-poverty schools are about twice as likely to have teachers without standard qualifications, a study finds.
November 25, 2008
The nation’s largest accreditor of teacher colleges says it will streamline the process teacher preparation programs go through to get its approval.
November 20, 2008
Little information exists on whether the $3 billion spent annually has improved the effectiveness of U.S. educators, a report says.
November 19, 2008
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is retooling its precollegiate approach and launching a push to double college-completion rates.
November 18, 2008
An initiative on "human capital" argues for a new strategy for managing talent.
November 18, 2008
American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten signaled her union is willing to discussing performance pay, charter schools and teacher tenure.
November 17, 2008
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