Teachers

On Friday morning, the New York City Department of Education released ratings of 18,000 teachers, based on how much their students had improved in math and English as measured by state tests. New York is the second city, after Los Angeles, to publish teachers names and their ratings. The teachers union has ...

By Raquel Maria Dillon LOS ANGELES -- The entire staff at a Los Angeles elementary school is being removed while authorities investigate allegations of horrific sexual abuse by two of the school's teachers, one of whom is accused of blindfolding children, taping their mouths and photographing them in a ...

There are a lot of arguments out there for why teachers' salaries should be higher or lower. But the Bible must be a new one. Shadrack McGill, a first-term Republican state senator in Alabama, made the case at a prayer breakfast Monday that teachers shouldn't get a raise, because then they'd be drawn to the job ...

People will use all kinds of excuses to get out of jury duty. But it's rare the employee who uses the pretense of having to sit on a jury just to get a little time off from work. But that's exactly what Mona Lisa Tello is accused of doing, officials in New York City revealed Tuesday. The 61-year-old Manhattan ...

Maybe it's because your mom's one, or your Aunt Suzie, or your Brother Jim. Maybe it's because you've had your life touched, or moved, or shaken by a few of them. Whatever the reason, people care about teachers, and how much they make. When AOL Jobs wrote of a report that claimed teachers were overpaid, our ...

Teachers, we like to think, instill our children with a few moral principles, along with the state-set curriculum. Success is the fruit of hard work and perseverance, for example. And if hard work and perseverance aren't enough, you can always try cash. ...

By Christine Armario MIAMI (AP) -- By day, Wade Brosz teaches American history at an A-rated Florida middle school. By night, he is a personal trainer at 24 Hour Fitness. Brosz took the three-night a week job at the gym after his teaching salary was frozen, summer school was reduced drastically, and the ...

When AOL Jobs published the story "Teachers Are Actually Overpaid, Report Says" last week, our in-boxes were flooded with notes from baffled, offended, and irate readers. Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, summed up these responses in three words: "Are you kidding?" So AOL ...

The cheating epidemic is spreading. Of course, such a statement might be expected to prompt discussion about our performance-based educational system. The constant competition that moves students to cheat might also be called into question. But this time, it's the teachers who are doing the conning. ...