Anyone else angry that teachers are justifying cheating on standardized tests? The cheating scandals in Atlanta, New Jersey, DC and Pensylvania show that educators are unable to take responsibility for fraud on a scale t Read More | Discuss 
Channeling movies Major League and Bull Durham, two Western Hills High School (Texas) baseball players thought sacrificing chickens would lead to better hitting. Instead, it got them arrested for cruelty to livestock, and even worse, PETA Read More | Discuss 

Two Canal Winchester Middle School students were banned from riding the bus to school due to passing gas.  The school labeled the flatulence as an "obscene gesture" and suspended bussing rights for the students. The banned students parents were outraged t

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Apparently unaware that their protests and the Wisconsin Walk Out failed to stop cost cutting, NYC's United Federation of Teachers is promising to turn NYC into another Wisconsin. Someone needs to let the UFT know that Wisconsin was an epic failure: the Wisconsin union lost benefits for members, jobs were lost and

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It's amazing how many teachers are getting taken down by comments on Facebook. Yesterday, a New Jersey teacher was suspended over a facebook comment where the teacher claimed students were future criminals and that made teaching feel like being a warden.

Are social media comments like this grounds for discipline for teachers or are they simply another example of administrators trying to Read More | Discuss 

The first media report linkng rockstar education reform advocate Michelle Rhee to irregularties in DC school standardised tests has emerged in a Daily Beast report. Rhee touted the improvements in scores at several DC area schools as evidence

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Missouri's Parkway School District has placed a teacher on administrative leave and will not ask her to return next year after a student asked her about her former career as an aspiring porn star. School district spokesman Paul Tandy was quoted as saying, “We’re surprised,
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Chicago public schools have a little problem. Cafeteria revenues are down 5% and trash cans are quickly filling up with purchased, healthy school meals. Some children are simply skipping lunch and eating when they get home. Seems in the rush to force kids to eat healthier food, they forgot one fact: kids don't like healthy food... 

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