by Beth Holmes | May 10, 2021 | News, Teacher Issues
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed a “teacher pipeline” bill, along with a half-dozen other education-aimed bills, on Tuesday, May 4th. His priority was Senate Bill 88, which is aimed at making teaching more accessible and more attractive. It includes new certification...
by Sarah Green | Nov 21, 2016 | News, Teacher Issues
A teacher at Baltimore’s Harlem Park Elementary/Middle School has been fired after she was caught on video screaming at a classroom full of middle school students and using a racial epithet. The school is mostly black, and the teacher is white. After yelling at a...
by Sarah Green | Oct 19, 2016 | Student Issues, Teacher Issues
Kinsey French is a bride like many others—beautiful, young, and preparing to be married before all of her friends and family. Her family is a little bigger than most. French is a teacher at Christian Acadamy’s Providence School in Louisville, Kentucky. For the past...
by Sarah Green | Jul 21, 2015 | Student Issues, Teacher Issues
It has been obvious for years that women are underrepresented in computer science, engineering, and mathematics jobs. Despite an increased focus on such careers and a willingness to accept women into such fields, not to mention a constant fight to reduce sexism in...
by Sarah Green | May 14, 2015 | Parent Issues, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
Parents are often a teacher’s toughest ‘customers.’ Hardest to please, least likely to show it when they are. It’s easy for that important relationship to get strained and adversarial. Your child’s teacher does so much for your family,...
