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Eye-Opening Study Finds Teachers Do Not Want to Bring Guns to School
Keeping students and teachers safe has become a hot button issue in the US since the Sandy Hook shooting in December.
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Should Teachers Be Allowed to Strike? — Survey of the Day
Chicago is in the midst of teacher strike that is affecting roughly 350,000 students.
There is some debate over whether the strike is permitted under Illinois law since the unions' list of grievances extends beyond pay and benefits -- which are the only issues they have the legal right to strike over.
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Russian Teacher Orders Students to Take a Bizarre 23-Hour Exam
Final exams are never fun, but for one university class in Russia, their test was particularly bad.
Not only did the instructor treat the class as her own personal happy hour, she also made it an impromptu sleepover.
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North Carolina Teacher Caught On Video Stating Student Could Be Arrested For Obama Criticism
A North Rowan High School teacher is taking fire for telling a student that he could be arrested for being critical of President Obama.
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Matt Damon & Mother Decline Award From NEA Teachers Union
Matt Damon and his mother, Dr. Nancy Carlsson-Paige, a professor of education, have both turned down the NEA's Friend Of Education Award. The decision came about after they discovered that the president of the NEA co-authored an opinion article for USA Today.
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Teacher Realizes ‘The Daily Show’ Is More Harmful to Students Than He Thought
Back in the day, high school classes would only show “how a bill becomes a law” videos, but Rhett Felix, a teacher at Eureka High school outside of Peoria, Illinois, tried to spice things up a bit. He used clips from Comedy Central’s ‘The Daily Show with Jon Stewart‘ to educate his students about current events, but the local school board placed him on paid suspension once word got out.
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14-Year-Old Special Needs Student Bullied By Teachers
November 16, 2011 In a world where bullying is no longer acceptable, I find it completely outrageous that an educator would bully a child, a student they are supposed to be educating, and get away with it. That is what happened to a special needs student in Ohio.
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Teacher Keeps Class Calm By Singing During Gunfight
Not even gunfire can stop Barney.
A kindergarten teacher in Monterrey, Mexico named Martha Rivera Alanis has become a hero after she sang the purple dinosaur's 'If All the Raindrops' while a gang shootout took place outside.