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  • Teacher Punishes Student… for Good Manners

    Teacher Punishes Student… for Good Manners4

    Everyone expects the first week of school to contain some hiccups. Even though we all know that our children are perfect angels and would never give their teachers trouble, the transition to schedules and classmates can also contain behavior problems that mom and dad will eventually hear about. What most parents don’t expect to hear,

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  • Teacher Licensure Laws Are Keeping Some of America’s Top Educators Out of Schools

    Teacher Licensure Laws Are Keeping Some of America’s Top Educators Out of Schools0

    My homeschooled children take weekly math classes with a gifted teacher who has been teaching math to kids for more than 30 years from her cozy city home. After receiving undergraduate and graduate degrees in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), she decided that offering math tutoring and enrichment classes would enable her

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  • Teacher Facing Discipline for ‘Misgendering’ Student

    Teacher Facing Discipline for ‘Misgendering’ Student0

    Via the BBC: “A teacher is facing disciplinary action at his school after he referred to a transgender pupil as a girl, although the student identifies as a boy. Joshua Sutcliffe, a Christian pastor from Oxford, admitted he said “Well done girls” when addressing a group including the student. He described it as a “slip

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  • Teacher Faces Termination for BUYING BOOKS for Students

    Teacher Faces Termination for BUYING BOOKS for Students0

    Have you ever wondered why the Nation’s Report Card shows that only 37 percent of America’s high school seniors are proficient in reading? If so, New York English teacher Todd Friedman might have an answer: bureaucracy. According to the New York Post, the award-winning teaching veteran recently got in trouble when he bought a bulk shipment of Frankenstein novels for

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  • Teacher Explains Why Schools Can’t Produce Well-Educated Minds

    Teacher Explains Why Schools Can’t Produce Well-Educated Minds0

    In recent years, a number of Americans have been awaking to the realization that today’s children are not receiving a high-quality education. The nation’s test scores in everything from reading to science are evidence of that. But while many Americans now recognize what a good education is not, many are unsure exactly what it is.

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  • Teacher Discovers that Young Students Really Can Be Taught to Think for Themselves

    Teacher Discovers that Young Students Really Can Be Taught to Think for Themselves0

    By now it’s old news that many Americans can no longer think for themselves. True, they have strong opinions, but often those opinions are influenced by prominent leaders and can turn around as quickly as the winds of political favor. Unfortunately, such a state is likely driven by the education system. Although schools purport to

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