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Thousands of teachers across Seattle plan to wear Black Lives Matter T-shirts to school Wednesday as part of an organized effort to teach curriculum and support student activism related to closing the opportunity gap between different races, KIRO reports.

An Iowa substitute teacher accused of having sex with a teenage student is now blaming the school for “allowing” the relationship to grow.

The majority of teachers are treating Leave voters with disdain and contempt, referring to them as “pond life” and “thick”, a politics teacher from north London has revealed. Thursday’s shock EU referendum result delivered perhaps the largest peaceful uprising of

A high school teacher in Bangladesh has been suspended from his position after an angry mob demanded that he be kept away from his students, alleging that he had “liked” a Facebook comment critical of Islam using a pseudonymous account.

In the wake of the ongoing migration crisis, Germany’s federal states have hired up to 8,500 new teachers to give special ‘welcome classes’ for child migrants, with at least another 1,500 anticipated. The impact of the influx of migrants on Germany’s infrastructure has

An entire school district in Virginia is closed Friday, after the backlash against an assignment which forced students to write the shahada, the Muslim oath that declares “There is no God but Allah. Mohammed is the messenger of Allah.”

It appears that teachers in Brevard County in central Florida are leaving the profession in greater numbers. According to Florida Today, which interviewed some of the teachers voluntarily exiting, factors impelling the teachers to leave include the lack of respect from students and administrators, low pay, health problems, and the long hours necessary to prepare for classes.

Students Matter, the same group that successfully won its case in Vergara v. California, which ruled certain teacher tenure protections were unconstitutional, is attempting to make certain that teacher evaluations must include test scores of their students.

Some British state (government funded) schools are deliberately under-recording the instances of bad behaviour by students and even removing truculent pupils during government inspections, all to gain good ratings. The revelation has been made by the government’s ‘classroom Tsar’ Tom Bennett,

During a June 11 appearance on MSNBC’s Now With Alex Wagner, Moms Demand Action founder Shannon Watts reveled in the number of states denying teachers the right to bear arms for self-defense and said her group’s role in preventing teachers from being armed is proof of Moms Demand’s success.

The California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS) has sold its investment in Remington Outdoor, the parent company for Bushmaster firearms–the firearm that Adam Lanza stole and used in his his heinous attack on Sandy Hook Elementary.

Pope Francis addressed parents during his weekly audience Wednesday, strongly emphasizing that it is their role to educate their children, not that of “intellectual critics” who may try to take the place of parents, ousting them from their proper role.

A survey finds that K-12 teachers feel that family stress and poverty are the top two hurdles students face in getting an education in America today. Psychological problems come in third as a barrier for education.

The California Teachers’ Retirement Trust (CalSTRS) board directed its staff and consultants last week to evaluate the risks of investing in thermal coal companies.

San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone, a staunch traditional Catholic, is under attack from faculty and staff at the four San Francisco archdiocese high schools, as eighty percent of faculty and staff have signed a petition rejecting the additions Cordileone has made to the school’s handbooks for the 2015-2016 school year.

A high school physics teacher is encouraging other teachers to use a unit he has prepared for his students about institutional racism, privilege, and social justice.

In their shared zeal to elect Hillary Clinton president, the New York Times allowed columnist Gail Collins to falsely blame Republican Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker for teacher layoffs that occurred the year before he became governor.  The column is titled

A new report finds that nearly 5,000 New York teachers are being paid six-figure pensions courtesy of tax payers.

On February 5, a teacher at Maryland’s Tuscarora High School was assaulted and “taken to a local hospital for treatment.” Exactly one week prior, on January 29, a teacher at Maryland’s Forestville High School was beaten then “treated in [a] hospital for minor injuries.”

A substitute teacher is not necessarily someone who most people think of as a full-time employee but school districts are grappling with the reality that the federal government considers anyone who works an average of 30 week hours as one. As a full-time employee, they are eligible for employer provided health insurance coverage in a company of 50 full-time employees or more, as mandated through the Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as Obamacare.

California teachers are attempting to lure parents into supporting Common Core by teaching them how to do the program’s infamous “new math” themselves.

A former high school substitute teacher in Ohio has been convicted of four counts of disseminating matter harmful to juveniles by showing movies featuring graphic violence and explicit sex scenes.