| Obama Credits Education With Boosting 'Mixed Kid' and 'Little Black Girl' to White House |
GOLDEN, Colo. -Â President Obama today credited an affordable college education with helping a "mixed kid from Hawaii" and a "little black girl from the South Side of Chicago" make history in the White House. "education was a gateway of opportunity for me," Obama told...
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| Agreement near in Chicago teachers strike, no school Friday |
CHICAGO (Reuters) - The Chicago Teachers Union and the nation's third-largest school district were close to a deal on Thursday to end a four-day strike over education reforms sought by Mayor Rahm Emanuel, but school will not be open on Friday. "We are optimistic, but we are still hammering things out. Schools will not open Friday," union president Karen Lewis said. Lewis, a former high school chemistry teacher, said the union House of Delegates will meet at 2 p.m. local time Friday (3 p.m. EDT) to provide an update on the talks. ...
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| Slovak teachers demand higher pay in biggest walkout in a decade |
BRATISLAVA (Reuters) - Thousands of Slovak teachers walked out on Thursday in their biggest strike in almost a decade to demand a 10 percent wage hike, posing a challenge to government efforts to cut spending this year and next. Officials from the Trade Union of Workers in education and Science of Slovakia said between 80 and 90 percent of primary and high schools and 30 percent of universities shut their doors as a result of the strike, the largest since 2003. ...
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| The firebrand leading Chicago's striking teachers |
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Karen Lewis, the fiery, frumpy former teacher leading striking Chicago teachers, has carefully built support for her cause of challenging education orthodoxy through community organizing in poor neighborhoods of the inner city. Critics call her a throwback to the blustering, confrontational union bosses of the past. School district and union officials have said she was spoiling for a bare-knuckled fight in a town with a long history of union activism. ...
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| Both sides 'dug in' as Chicago teachers strike drags on |
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Chicago teachers stayed away from public schools for a third day on Wednesday in a strike over Mayor Rahm Emanuel's demand for tough teacher evaluations that U.S. education reform advocates see as crucial to fixing urban schools. With more than 350,000 children out of school, the patience of parents and labor negotiators began to fray as hopes of a quick resolution to the biggest U.S. labor strike in a year were dashed. ...
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| Conquer the College Hunt |
Take a deep breath and try to relax. This won't be as bad as you think. That goes for parents as well as students. Finding the college that's best for you is an education in itself. It's a journey--physical, intellectual, and emotional--that will help you learn about yourself and your family, as well as that scary but necessary American subculture we call higher education.
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| Why Obama wants Chicago teachers strike to go away â€" fast |
Everyone knows a teacher strike is bad for a mayor, and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel surely never envisioned that his attempts to push through certain education reforms would lead to this.
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| Florida probes online school company over teachers |
MIAMI (Reuters) - The largest operator of online schools in the United States is being investigated by the Florida Department of education over allegations the company may employ teachers who are not properly certified, a state official said on Tuesday. K12, a company founded by former U.S. education Secretary William Bennett, is one of a dozen for-profit companies operating full-time, online public elementary and high schools across the country. ...
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| Ed secretary is neutral in Chicago teachers strike |
 education Secretary Arne Duncan isn't taking sides in the Chicago teachers' strike that is keeping more than 350,000 students out of the classroom.
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| In Chicago strike, teachers draw a line on education reform |
The image of 29,000 teachers and support staff striking, just a week into the school year, and nearly 400,000 students in the nation's third-largest district left without classes is not one that any mayor wants.
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