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Chicago Tribune
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A Wisconsin teacher who posted an anonymous comment online sarcastically praising the Columbine High School gunmen won't face criminal charges, a prosecutor said Wednesday.
Washington County District Attorney Todd Martens said the comme..
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SF Gate
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A former teacher serving house arrest for having sex with a 14-year-old student was arrested on charges of violating her probation, state records show.
According to a Department of Corrections report, Debra Lafave discussed her personal life and other..
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FOX News
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A utility truck's elevated bucket collapsed during a school demonstration, killing a utility company employee and injuring a teacher as about 600 children watched, authorities said.
The pair had been lifted 20 to 30 feet in the air Thursday when the bo..
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CNN
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A math teacher whose name is used in a student film featuring an evil teddy bear that orders other stuffed animals to kill a teacher is suing the four children who made it, alleging it defamed him.
Daniel Clevenger's lawsuit, filed May 16 in Henry Supe..
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Los Angeles Times
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Light snow speckled the bare dirt courtyard outside teacher Cai Limei's fifth-grade classroom. Inside, an ancient radiator was barely warm to the touch.
The classroom at the Gaoyakou Central Primary School, about an hour outside Beijing and not far fro..
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CNN
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A substitute teacher's tool for silencing chatty kindergartners -- clothespins -- doesn't wash with school officials.
Four boys said spring-type clothespins were placed over their upper or lower lips for talking too much in class, Amanda-Clearcreek Pri..
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FOX News
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During his eight days as a part-time high school biology teacher, Kris Helphinstine included Biblical references in material he provided to students and gave a PowerPoint presentation that made links between evolution, Nazi Germany and Planned Parenthood...
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FOX News
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An eighth-grader faces expulsion after admitting he put urine in a teacher's coffee pot, officials said.
The Wilson Middle School teacher noticed that the coffee had an unusual odor Friday and reported it to the principal, Muncie Community Schools offi..
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ABC News
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The attack happened after 60-year-old Frank Burd confiscated an iPod from one of the students who was using it in class. The 14-year-old returned later with an 11th grader. The teens allegedly pushed Burd, who struck his head on a locker. Schools CEO P..
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Star-Telegram
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Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs lambasted teacher unions Friday, claiming no amount of technology in the classroom would improve public schools until principals could fire bad teachers. Jobs compared schools to businesses with principals serving as CEOs...
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ABC News
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Until recently, Julie Amero says, she lived the quiet life of a small-town substitute teacher, with little knowledge of computers and even less about porn. Now she is in the middle of a criminal case that hinges on the intricacies of both, and it could..
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Reuters
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A student is suing a Massachusetts university over what he says is an unfair grade in a philosophy course, saying it could kill his chances of entering law school. Brian Marquis, 50, said on Wednesday that he filed the lawsuit against the University of..
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BBC News
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A supply teacher has been sacked from a secondary school following complaints from Muslim pupils...
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New York Times
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After a public school teacher was recorded telling students they belonged in hell if they did not accept Jesus as their savior, the school board has banned taping in class without an instructor’s permission, and has added training for teachers on the le..
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Washington Post
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When Lisa Suben took a job last year as the fifth-grade math teacher at the AIM Academy in Southeast D.C., she was told her lessons had already been prepared for her. AIM was the second charter school founded for low-income D.C. students by KIPP, the Know..
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Canada.com
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Quebec school officials are considering banning the use of cameras and cellphones in all classrooms after two students secretly recorded their teacher's angry outburst and posted three clips on YouTube...
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SF Gate
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A colorful bunch of balloons inflated to honor a beloved teacher who died of leukemia broke free and traveled more than 900 miles to a South Dakota cornfield.
"The balloons were still full of air," said Michael Beadle, who recently discovered them whil..
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USA Today
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A new public school teacher in North Dakota works for a year on probation before getting job security. For a teacher in Missouri, it's five years.
It's just one example of how policies affecting the teaching profession vary from state to state, accordi..
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Los Angeles Times
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MY HISTORY TEACHER in high school was a good man, but we sure didn't learn much in his class. We read about Brown vs. Board of Education, but not that its roots were in Mendez vs. Westminster, the landmark 1946 case that ended segregation in Orange County..
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FOX News
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A female substitute teacher who taught in a Wisconsin school district has been fired and is under investigation for an alleged sexual relationship with her daughter's 13-year-old boyfriend, FOXNews.com has learned.
The Pierce County Sheriff’s Departm..
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