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Before a math exam, staff at a Quebec high school asked students to put their cell phones on a teacher's desk to prevent any cheating. But when one of those phones seemed unaccounted for, the staff decided to go to any lengths to find it, reports Canada's QMI news service, including a strip search. The local ...

As K-12 education in America has tumbled in global rankings, states have responded: more focus on math and science, more teacher accountability, more testing, and more standardized lesson plans. But one history teacher's resignation letter, posted two weeks ago on Facebook, reads like a last cry from the old ...

By Susan Donaldson James When Philip Wiederspan began teaching first-grade at age 25, he was the only male, except for the gym teacher. His former New Jersey college friends would look at him in shock when they learned his profession: "How can you do that? You must have a lot of patience." "It requires a ...

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By Russell Goldman A transgender teacher is suing a New York City Catholic school after more than 30 years working there, claiming that it wrongfully terminated him for growing out his hair, painting his fingernails and being "worse than gay." In a lawsuit, Mark Krolikowski, 59, alleges that after 32 ...

Have you ever experienced the feeling at work that everyone around you is unstable? That you're the only level-headed worker in a workplace populated by colleagues whose fits and outbursts are unpredictable, or even psychopathic? ...

BERLIN TOWNSHIP, N.J. -- A former "Teacher of the Year" in a New Jersey school district was fired after being arrested for allegedly streaking through an apartment complex. Mark C. Bringhurst, a tenured fifth grade teacher in Vineland, N.J., was the first educator to lose his job under the state's speedier ...

By Annalyn Censky NEW YORK -- After four years of layoffs, teaching jobs are finally coming back. Public school hiring rose this summer to its highest level in six years. Local school districts added 79,000 education jobs this July through September, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That's ...

Lots of workers waste time at work, but few would want to broadcast video of themselves doing it. But New York technology teacher Francesco Portelos is doing that just to protest his suspension, which he says has left him to languish in a "rubber room" -- a detention center for teachers. Portelos (pictured ...

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A Texas middle-school principal faces criminal charges after she allegedly hatched the plan to plant a camera in a high school girls locker room. Wendee Long, principal at Wayside Middle School in Fort Worth, is accused of using her daughter to place a cell-phone camera inside an Argyle High School ...

FONTANA, Calif. -- A Southern California high school teacher was arrested on suspicion of directing students to assault at least one other student in a classroom hazing incident, police said Sunday. Emmanuel Delarosa, 27, was arrested Saturday along with four students after another student, who said that he ...

NEW ORLEANS -- A Louisiana judge ruled Wednesday that thousands of New Orleans school employees were wrongfully fired after Hurricane Katrina shut down the city and its schools in 2005. Judge Ethel Simms Julien awarded more than $1 million to seven people who filed the class-action suit against the New Orleans ...

SAN ANTONIO -- A Texas teacher will lose her job after ordering more than 20 kindergartners to line up and hit a classmate accused of being a bully, a district spokesman said Friday. The teacher at a suburban San Antonio school is accused of orchestrating the slugfest after a younger teaching colleague went ...

For some 8 million Americans, part-time jobs are a way of life. Many are cobbling together several part-time gigs while they search for that elusive full-time job. Some, though, prefer part-time work because it offers flexibility and time off for other pursuits, including raising kids. But whether you are ...

PENDLETON, Ore. (AP) -- The daughter-in-law of Nike co-founder Bill Bowerman has been dismissed as a volunteer track coach at a small Eastern Oregon high school because she escorted a 17-year-old boy to the prom. Melissa Bowerman, 41, who had been coaching the Condon/Wheeler track and field team with her ...

HAMILTON, Ohio -- A former high school teacher in southwest Ohio has been charged with stealing money meant for a school prom in a cash-strapped district. ...

By Sarah Brumfield BALTIMORE -- Two public school teachers and a school administrator are sharing the spoils of last month's record Mega Millions jackpot, planning trips to Europe, new homes and a daughter's college education, Maryland Lottery officials said Tuesday. ...

In December 2010, a Michigan high school teacher gave his student a birthday present. The day after she turned 18, he took her to a hotel, and had sex with her. The news got out, and the police investigated. But there was no charge to throw at the 28-year-old man. Their tryst was perfectly legal. As ...

A California middle-school science teacher who moonlighted as a porn actress has been placed on leave after administrators discovered that the videos could be seen by anyone online -- including her students. The teacher, Stacie Halas, 31, was removed from her classroom at Richard B. Haydock Intermediate ...