teachers

The TikTok challenge for October is “slap a teacher”. According to reports, “slap a teacher” incidents are popping up across the country.

Parents in a New Jersey school district began calling for the resignation of an interim superintendent after he allegedly said he doesn’t mind racist teachers. In fall 2019, Montclair Public Schools’ interim superintendent Nathan Parker attended a meeting of the Montclair NAACP. According to Montclair Local, several attendees, and by his own admission, Parker took the […]

After finding out that many of his students at Washington D.C.’s KIPP DC Arts and Technology Academy have never had a haircut because their families can’t afford it, pre-K/kindergarten teacher Azel Prather Jr. teamed up with local barbers, hairdressers, and nail technicians to treat his 40 students to a day of pampering. Prather’s motto is “you […]

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The nation’s two largest teachers unions want schools to revise or eliminate active shooter drills, asserting Tuesday that they can harm students’ mental health and that there are better ways to prepare for the possibility of a school shooting. The American Federation of Teachers and National Education Association joined with the […]

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Little Rock teachers will go on strike for one day this week over an Arkansas panel’s decision to strip their collective bargaining power and complaints about state control of the 23,000-student district, union officials said Monday. The strike that will take place Thursday will be only the second time teachers […]

He finds himself at odds with a fired up student.

Yesterday Chicago teachers finally came to an agreement to end their strike and get back to work. Damon thinks that’s great news and he’s glad that the teachers are back to work and kids are back to school. But he just has to mention that teachers nowadays are super fine! He never had a teacher […]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Demands by striking Chicago teachers for more nurses, librarians and social workers are highlighting concerns that resonate in high-poverty school districts nationwide, where shortages of support staff leave educators feeling stretched. Unions and professional groups for such employees say those jobs often are lower priority when budgets are tight, but their […]

CHICAGO (AP) — Teachers in the nation’s third-largest school district are inching closer to a strike that could happen as early as next month. After rejecting the district’s latest offer, Chicago educators are back at the bargaining table negotiating issues including pay, staffing shortages and class size. The dispute follows teacher strikes this year over […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Thousands of teachers nationwide are the latest beneficiaries of James Patterson’s programs for literary and education. Patterson and Scholastic Book Club announced Thursday that 4,500 teachers have received grants through the Patterson Partnership. Four thousand teachers each receive $250 in cash for classroom libraries and 250 Scholastic Book Clubs Bonus Points. […]

The Atlanta Public Schools cheating scandal refers to the accusation that teachers and principals in the Atlanta Public Schools district cheated on state-administered standardized tests in 2009 and to the trial in 2014-2015. Roland Martin talks to Jodi Gomes, who produced the documentary about the situation called “One Child Left Behind.” Gomes says that Criterion-Referenced Competency Tests […]

“They made me a slave today.” Aneka Burton still remembers the way her then 10-year-old son, Nikko, who is black, recounted his experience to his grandfather after school one day. It was 2011. But Burton believes the classroom exercise in which Nikko’s classmates were encouraged to examine and pretend to bid on each other during […]