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Assigning Violent Math Problems to Third Graders Will Get You Fired
Posted in Dunce by smarty 44 days ago (http://news.yahoo.com)Teacher Fired Over Facebook Password
Posted in Dunce by smarty 44 days ago (http://global.christianpost.com)
Kimberly Hester, a teachers aide at Frank Squires Elementary School in Cassopolis, Michigan has been fired for refusing to give school district officials her Facebook password. Facebook's terms and conditions prohibit any Facebook member for asking for login credentials of any other member.&nb
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Standardized Test Cheating: Double Standard, Anyone?
Posted in Dunce by indymike 288 days ago (http://mikeseidle.com)
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
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Texas High School Baseball Players Charged With Sacrificing Chickens to Improve Game
Posted in Dunce by smarty 374 days ago (http://www.foxsportssouthwest.com)
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
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New Level of Stupid: Students Banned for Farting on School Bus
Posted in Dunce by smarty 376 days ago (http://www.dispatch.com)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
Read More | 1 CommentNY Teachers Union Promises NYC Will Be Another Wisconsin
Posted in Dunce by smarty 379 days ago (http://www.nypost.com)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
Read More | DiscussFirst Grade Teacher on Facebook: Students are Future Criminals
Posted in Dunce by smarty 412 days ago (http://www.csmonitor.com)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.
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DC Standardized Test Cheating Scandal Implicates Reformer Michelle Rhee
Posted in Dunce by smarty 419 days ago (http://www.thedailybeast.com)
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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