Lt. Gov. James "Duke" Aiona is asking representatives of the parties involved in Hawaii's controversial teacher furlough program to meet with him immediately to work out a settlement.
Whether it happened 20 seconds ago or 20 years ago, embarrassing memories have a way of sticking around, no matter how hard we try to forget. In response to , readers shared their own humiliations from their past.
A state district judge has declared a 16-year-old boy competent for trial in the fatal classroom stabbing of a Texas special education teacher.
A judge says former teacher and sex offender Debra Lafave is allowed to have contact with the children of family and friends.
Denver police have crushed a car belonging to a man who pleaded guilty to attempting to sexually assault a child.
A former Florida teacher who had sex with a 14-year-old student wants to be allowed supervised contact with the children of her relatives and friends.
President Barack Obama means it when he says parents need to be involved in their children's education.
Police said an Ohio elementary school student bit a teacher on the arm and had to be pried off by a school official. Dayton police said the child was brought to the assistant principal's office at Patterson-Kennedy Elementary School Monday by teacher Stephen Green. The boy began throwing things in the office and had to be restrained by Green.
Reader's Digest interviewed educators across the country to get the scoop on what your child's teacher isn't telling you. These insider secrets will go a long way toward helping you and your child survive the school year.
Hundreds of friends, family members, colleagues and students gathered to remember the life of an educator and musician who was stabbed to death at a Texas high school.
A Florida jury has found a Miami-area special needs teacher guilty of abuse after authorities say she put hot sauce in an autistic student's soda.
A northern Illinois teacher faces felony charges after allegedly giving two teenage girls marijuana, alcohol and prescription drugs in exchange for work around her home. Kym Krocza was arrested Tuesday on charges of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. She is free on bond.
A southern Utah school district says it plans to appeal a Utah Labor Commission judge's ruling that its officials engaged in racial profiling and prejudice when they rejected a man from India for a substitute teaching position shortly after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
A Vermont teacher accused of molesting two boys and plying them with cash to keep them quiet has been held on $250,000 bail.
Authorities say a New Jersey teenager threatened to rape and kill his teacher if she did not give his entire class an "A++" for the last school year.
Teachers in Washington state's fourth-largest school district have approved a new contract and are heading back to the classroom.
A judge for the Utah Labor Commission has ruled that school officials engaged in racial profiling and prejudice when they rejected a man from India for a substitute teaching position shortly after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
High school librarian Melissa Payne is starting her new school year with $1,000 less in her paycheck and three days that she'll be forced to stay home from her job.
In a story Aug. 27, The Associated Press reported that the family of a student who said a science teacher burned a cross on his arm settled a federal lawsuit with the school district. Their attorney, Doug Mansfield, described it as an effort by the family to move past the incident.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered the state of Massachusetts to grant bail to a man convicted of beating an elementary school teacher with a baseball bat.
The owner of an Albuquerque driving school has been charged with driving while intoxicated after crashing his car. Police said the man was arrested Aug. 6 after he crashed his car in Rio Rancho. Police spokesman John Francis said when officers responded, the man had "an odor of intoxication on his breath; bloodshot, red watery eyes; slurred speech."
Ever since Americans sent their children to one-room schoolhouses, parents have known what makes a good school: an inspiring, organized, creative teacher. But researchers haven't been able to quantify what exactly makes a teacher effective and how to tie that to student achievement.
Prosecutors say a former Southern California high school student has admitted demanding money and pornographic photos from a teacher accused of having sex with a current student.
A teacher who brought plastic replica rifles to his class prompted a lockdown of two San Diego schools when a staff member thought he was a gunman.
When word got out that Mr. McBeth, a popular substitute teacher at two southern New Jersey school districts, was about to come back to class as Miss McBeth, it caused an uproar.
PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. -- A teacher who allowed her kindergarten students to vote an autistic boy out of class is returning to the classroom.
Police in the southern Philippines say the severed head of a kidnapped schoolteacher has been found in a bag at a petrol station.
Two female teachers were shot dead on Thursday in Bajaur Agency, after masked men dragged them out of their vehicles and opened fire. The two women had been going home from their government school. At least two men accompanying them were also injured.
If the skirt is an acceptable length, can a boy wear it? Can a girl attend her prom in a tuxedo? In recent years, a growing number of teenagers have been dressing to articulate — or confound — gender identity and sexual orientation.
Damian Brown, 26, was taken into custody by East Baton Rouge Parish sheriff's deputies and charged with identity theft after officials at Scotlandville Elementary say he put three different social security numbers on his applications.
BENNINGTON, Vt.—A former Arlington teacher and coach has acknowledged allowing minors to drink at her home.
This was the last of three October hearing sessions. The next sessions are scheduled for November 17-19.
A local student says he ate a dead fly on a dare from his teacher when he was promised a good grade, but was angered when he said the teacher went back on his word.
Spencer Muratides is 18-years-old. This year he can vote for the first time. He can also give a life saving gift. His bone marrow.
Terri Mahan testified earlier in the hearing when the Board was putting on its case in chief. Hamilton elected not to cross examine at that time because he would call her now.
The main burden of Daubenmire's testimony was that he took responsibility for having organized the April 16, 2008, public demonstration in Mt. Vernon to bring attention to the Freshwater situation.
The Department of Education is investigating a complaint triggered by a reading Mr. Voorhis assigned to his high school juniors, which is sexually explicit and describes masturbation.
Or better still..there's a Med(Medication) for that...I am no different than you because it applies to me also...But I read an article this morning on newsvine about a little boy in a class who was a disruption in his class, and it got me to thinking..The next step in the equati …
In my daughter's Kinder-garden class there is a student, whom everyone knew since the first day because in the whole school he was the only one to get an "x" on his first day behavior chart. I will call him Art, this way I do not give away his name.
MILFORD, Conn.—A former Connecticut high school teacher took the stand in his sexual assault trial and denied having a sexual relationship with one of his students in 2003.
A New Zealand primary school teacher who appeared naked on Australian Penthouse's website is being investigated by the New Zealand Teachers Council.
One might expect an expanded role for the community colleges in granting high school diplomas as new high school requirements lead to increases in the student dropout rate.
"The 27-year-old Mr. Mehanna, who taught science and religion to middle-schoolers at the academy, was arrested Wednesday at his parents' Sudbury home.
Around the world millions of children are not getting a proper education because illness or disability prevent them going to school. In the third report in the BBC's Hunger to Learn series, Will Ross meets children in Tanzania who are overcoming visual impairment to learn.
A 52-year-old teacher was badly burned yesterday (Weds) by an explosion in a toilet he had entered which occurred when he turned on the light.
A local 10-year-old boy is being hailed as a hero. He says he used what he learned in Cub Scouts to save his teacher's life. The amazing young man explained to Eyewitness News how he reacted in an unusual situation with maturity well beyond his years.
A substitute teacher asked a female student to put away her cell phone. The student ignored her and continued to text on her phone. The substitute teacher took the phone from the student.
A Toledo Public Schools first grader was told by his teacher to get on all fours and crawl around the classroom like a dog as a form of punishment, his mother said.
Efren Peñaflorida gives Filipino youth an alternative to gang membership through education. His Dynamic Teen Company's 10,000 members have taught basic reading and writing to 1,500 kids living in the slums His complete story here Pushcart classes help break gang chain