teachers

Babar Ali of Murshidabad began teaching children in his parents' backyard at nine — and at sixteen the BBC called him the world's youngest headmaster.

October 21, 2014 · 1 min read

Flip teaching reverses the classroom: students watch lesson videos at home and do homework in class. Early results — like Clintondale's — were striking.

October 9, 2013 · 2 min read

Fairview School in the Missouri Ozarks trained staff to carry concealed weapons after Sandy Hook — a 40-hour course with annual background checks.

April 15, 2013 · 5 min read

Veteran teacher Gerald Conti's resignation letter: 27 years at Westhill High, and a farewell to a profession he says ‘no longer exists’.

April 10, 2013 · 5 min read

First-grade teacher Kaitlin Roig hid 15 students in a classroom bathroom during the Sandy Hook shooting, promising them they would see Christmas.

December 18, 2012 · 2 min read

A 2012 school debate in Tennessee asked a fair question: if homework is practice, why score it like a test? The case for and against grading homework.

September 20, 2012 · 1 min read

A Miami-Dade teacher was dismissed after his past in adult entertainment surfaced. Where does a legal past end and fitness to teach begin?

August 30, 2011 · 1 min read

Mandatory HIV tests for foreign teachers — but not ethnic Koreans — reignited a debate about xenophobia in South Korea. A look back at the 2010 controversy.

January 3, 2011 · 1 min read