100,000 teachers might get laid off nationwide
Obama scrambling to pass $23-billion bill that would ease cuts.
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Posted at 6:30 AM ET, 05/27/2010
Vocabulary twist: Teaching words OUT of context
New vocabulary words should be taught in literary context. That's the conventional wisdom. But a teacher writes about how she she was successful with her students by being unconventional with vocab lessons.
Surviving the college search with family intact
Picking a college is like juggling plastic explosives. The generation gap between parent and child is large. Other family issues intrude. Popular culture insists it is the most important decision parents and children will make together. But students often do not share the parental sense of urgency. Much can go wrong.
"Higher-needs schools are hit inequitably" by the cuts, says Jennifer Moless, a kindergarten teacher in San Francisco. Moless has been pink-slipped but has also been told she's likely to get a reprieve. (Randi Lynn Beach-TWP)