The Van Buren Public Schools district in Michigan is set to charge its teachers fees for having small appliances in their classrooms, teachers say.
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In a recent survey, barely half of a self-selecting sample of UK teachers who use the webcast service Teachers' TV disagreed with the idea that "creationism or intelligent design should be given the same status as evolution in the classroom". Some 87.9 per cent of respondents thought that it was appropriate to discuss religious matters in science classes if pupils brought them up.
President-elect Barack Obama has made big promises to educators, parents and the nation's nearly 50 million public school students. He vowed to recruit an "army of new teachers," create better tests and give public schools more funding. He also said he would make college more affordable.
The chancellor of the Washington, D.C., Schools has proposed spectacular raises for teachers willing to give up tenure.
One-third of teachers in Britain would support teaching the beliefs of creationism alongside evolution in schools, poll results indicate.
Eager to hire teachers for bilingual programs, the Dallas public school system assigned fake Social Security numbers to newly hired foreigners, an internal investigation found.
