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Glenbrook Dist. 225 settles contracts
Glenbrook High School District 225 has approved contracts with three unions, the superintendent and its other staff, increasing their salaries on average between 1.96 percent and 3.4 percent in coming years. All raises take effect July 1, said Karen...
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Wage Contract Issues, Collective Contract, Career and Workplace, Consumer Confidence
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Kanine retiring as Petoskey High School principal, taking on St. Francis job
PETOSKEY -- For Jim Kanine, new job opportunities that have emerged from time to time helped keep his 35-year education career engaging. "What it does for you is, it keeps you fresh," Kanine said. Kanine, the principal of Petoskey High School since...
Tags: Religion and Belief, Marketing, Central Michigan University, Christianity, Parochial Schools
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Easton schools slash 43 positions
With its budget like a wound that never heals, the Easton Area School District bled off 19 more teachers Tuesday night. To balance its balance sheets, the school board lopped off 43 positions — teachers, coaches, a nurse, janitors — to cap a...
Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, Easton (Easton, Pennsylvania), Unemployment, Health and Medical Professionals, Career and Workplace
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RAY MANZAREK: Last Recordings Out Today
Less than a month after his death comes a new album from Doors keyboardist Ray Manzarek. Twisted Tales is Manzarek's third album with slide guitar player Roy Rogers came...Tags: New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, Arts, Born to Be Wild (movie), Feminism, Apple iPad
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Letters: Evaluating Common Core
Re "Was adopting Common Core a mistake?," Editorial, June 17 Politics aside, the changes outlined in the Common Core curriculum standards — which emphasize analysis and understanding over rote memorization — are essential. For too long,...Tags: The Holocaust (1934-1945), Education, U.S. Department of Education, Teaching and Learning
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CTU's Lewis rips Emanuel's 'elite' advisers
Clout StreetIn the wake of recent school closings and teacher layoffs, Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis took aim Tuesday at the two R’s of her education reform effort — racism and revenue. Lewis, speaking to the City Club of Chicago, did not...Tags: Chicago Teachers Union, City Club of Chicago, Civil Rights, Layoffs and Downsizing, Unemployment
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Most Pennsylvania colleges poorly prepare teachers, study shows
Students attending college to earn a teaching degree are trained by "an industry of mediocrity" that churns out first-year teachers with inadequate content knowledge and classroom management skills, according to a new study. The report compiled by the...Tags: Moravian College, DeSales University, High Schools, Teachers Unions, Consumers
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Pines, charter school teachers reach deal
More than 300 teachers won't be losing their jobs and parents and students don't have to fear that the day-to-day operations of the city's charter system will be privatized — at least for another two years. A heated three-hour long emergency...
Tags: Broward County Public Schools, Company Privatization, Teaching and Learning
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CPS leader predicts happier ties with teachers union
Chicago Tribune reportersChicago Public Schools chief Barbara Byrd-Bennett offered an upbeat vision of the district's future during an event Tuesday night, a dramatically different take from that given by Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis in a speech earlier in the...Tags: Chicago Teachers Union, City Club of Chicago, Layoffs and Downsizing, Chicago Public Schools, Karen Lewis
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UCF marketing professor put his students first
Gordon Paul was known for making students his priority during his more than 30 years as a marketing professor at the University of Central Florida. "He never lost sight of the reason why professors are really here," said Foard Jones, UCF's associate dean...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Marketing, University of Tulsa, University of Central Florida, Education
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Md. schools superintendent, head of state teachers association discuss education reform
julieg@herald-mail.comMore rigorous Common Core education standards, new assessment tests, and new teacher and principal evaluation systems that begin this school year were among the issues the superintendent of Maryland schools and the head of the state’s teachers...Tags: Academic Progress, Business Enterprises, Heads of State, Education, Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland)
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Patricia E. Sadowski, reading specialist
Patricia E. Sadowski, a retired Baltimore County public schools reading specialist and music lover, died Sunday from congestive heart failure at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. The Oak Crest Village resident was 76. "Pat worked with children who were...
Tags: Loyola University Maryland, Religion and Belief, Greenwich, Heart Failure, University of Maryland, College Park
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