Teachers accused of misconduct will spend less time idling in "Rubber Rooms" on the taxpayer's dime under a deal hammered out between the teachers union and education officials.

A torrent of teachers is flowing into Washington this week as one of the nation's largest and most powerful unions aims to decide whom to endorse in the presidential race, what position to take on revisions to the federal No Child Left Behind law and how to react to state and local proposals for ...

The Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), yesterday said the Federal Government has the constitutional duty to implement the controversial Teacher Salary Structures (TSS) which made teachers all over the country to embark on a nationwide strike action to demand for improvement in their welfare.

The All-Nigeria Conference of Principals of Secondary Schools (ANCOPSS) yesterday called on the Federal Government to urgently accede to the demand of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) for the issuance of a circular for the implementation of the Teachers' Salary Structure (TSS).

A state-appointed fact-finder stepped into the dispute Monday between the Big Spring school board and the teachers’ union leadership.

D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee is proposing a contract that would give mid-level teachers who are paid $62,000 yearly the opportunity to earn more than $100,000 -- but they would have to give up seniority and tenure rights, two union members familiar with the negotiations said yesterday.

D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee announced yesterday that she plans to fire 250 teachers and 500 teacher's aides who were unable to meet a June 30 deadline to obtain certification.

By Alyse Knorr - The National Education Association, the largest teacher's union in the country, attacked the "fundamentally flawed" No Child Left Behind Act Wednesday at the unveiling of its education reform plan.

Rhode Island native Edward J. McElroy Jr., the retiring leader of the American Federation of Teachers, says the No Child Left Behind law led to “a disaster” in public education.

At the Center for Inquiry Science, teachers are turned back into students to learn the importance of science. The center is working with Renton schools to train teachers on inquiry science, encouraging students to think for themselves and, in the process, learn what science is all about.

A torrent of teachers is flowing into Washington this week as one of the nation's largest and most powerful unions aims to decide whom to endorse in the presidential race, what position to take on revisions to the federal No Child Left Behind law and how to react to state and local proposals for ...

After months of tense negotiations, Manalapan-Englishtown teachers have a tentative agreement on a four-year contract agreement providing increases of more than 4 percent annually for salaries.

When, at a summer music camp in the early '70s, Rebekah Johnson's violin teachers told her she should attend The Juilliard School, she said to them, "I don't think they're interested."

NECC 2008, booth #0930 -- OnCourse Systems for Education, a provider of award-winning, web-based tools that streamline and automate educational processes for public and private school districts, announced today it will implement its Student Information System for seven New Jersey school districts.

They form an unlikely pair. New Jersey's Senate majority leader, Steve Sweeney, is an ironworker-turned-legislator who wears a size-54 jacket, speaks plainly, and dots his sentences with "know-what-I-mean."

FRANKLIN TWP. | Warren County Technical School teachers waiting for more than $6,000 apiece in back pay will have to wait a little longer.

The July Fourth weekend is a three-day holiday for most New Jerseyans -- meaning triple the fun at backyard barbecues, family gatherings, beach outings, parades and fireworks.

In New York City, it often costs taxpayers $250,000 just to fire one incompetent teacher. In Long Island, a teacher remains on paid leave, earning $113,559 annually, even after pleading guilty after her fifth DWI arrest in seven years.

From one little girl and one idea came a children's book club that's bigger than anyone imagined.

A small Hunterdon County school could be among the handful of public schools in New Jersey where children go to class in uniforms. The idea was broached in Hampton Borough last month by chief school administrator Joanna Hughes, according to school board president William Peterson.