States try mentoring to retain teachers
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States from Oregon to Georgia are considering pouring millions of dollars into mentoring programs for new teachers, aiming to stop educators from spending just a few years in the classroom before leaving the field.
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Teachers are urged to adopt new strategies to help children who fall behind in English and maths.
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A new public school teacher in North Dakota works for a year on probation before getting job security. For a teacher in Missouri, it's five years. It's just one example of how policies affecting the teaching profession vary from state to state, according to a report by the National Council on Teacher Quality, a private group in Washington.
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Mike Baker examines the factors that combine to make a good teacher.
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Classroom assistants are increasingly being asked to cover for teachers who are absent, union leaders claim.
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WASHINGTON - Many school districts are struggling to let students transfer from poorly performing schools to better ones, as required under federal law, a study finds.
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American public schools are struggling to attract and retain high-quality teachers. Is it time we paid them for performance?
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Some primary schools could close and others may share head teachers as Gwynedd examines its education system.
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Ministers want Britain's top science firms to encourage "career switchers" to become teachers.
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Schools grapple with degree to which they're responsible for social, as well as academic, skills.
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A movement gaining momentum in Congress and some school systems in the Washington region and beyond would boost pay for exceptional teachers in high-poverty schools, a departure from salary schedules based on seniority and professional degrees that have kept pay in lockstep for decades.
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By James Salzer, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution  Feb. 19--Gov. Sonny Perdue wants to put an additional $700 million into  education next year, but Georgia's technical colleges might wind up having to  lay off faculty and close programs to make ends meet.
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By Joann DiGennaro  WASHINGTON  --  At an educators' meeting in Washington last fall, conversation turned to whether the federal government should support programming for this nation's most gifted and talented high school students.
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Hundreds of newly-qualified teachers in Wales cannot find work because too many of them have been trained.
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Through the Sister Cities program, two Boyertown teachers recently traveled to Bohodukhiv to share, learn and teach, and found themselves enriched by the kindness and hospitality ofUkrainians.
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A bipartisan panel of governors has recommended that states expand access to pre-kindergarten and push for early childhood education efforts if they want to properly prepare kids for school.
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Kopel cites the AP article: Pairat Wihakarat, the president of a teachers union in the three provinces, said more than 1,700 teachers have already asked for transfers to safer areas.