Wednesday, March 29, 2023

Tag: teachers

Special needs school fires educators for mocking autistic child on audio...

Instead of expressing a modicum of compassion for the special needs student, his teacher and a teacher’s aide incessantly derided the boy and his condition with open disdain.

Striking West Virginia teachers revive a proud labor heritage

After nine days on strike, the teachers won!

Victory in West Virginia – teachers’ strike succeeds

West Virginia's fight isn't over though.

High school students

So what was it about the Parkland killings that tipped the scale? This is among the questions we teachers have been asking one another at school recently.

Ohio teachers win back regular raises

Preparation, communication, and unity were the keys to their success.

Teachers and Black Lives Matter Activists Partner Up

“How do we amplify each other’s message and work together to target the oligarchs that fill the politicians’ war chest?”

The War on Mexico’s Teachers

The demonization of teachers and the idea that making a profit is more important than ensuring that all citizens have the right to a public education offers just one more example of how morally bankrupt the philosophy of neo-liberalism has become.

We Won’t Improve Education By Making Teachers Hate Their Jobs

Students test scores and VAM-based teacher evaluations give false reassurance and end up making teachers miserable.

Solidarity Pours in for Birmingham Teachers Striking to Defend Victimised Union...

One teacher joined the NUT the day before the strike so they could join the action. Another filled out their NUT membership form on the picket line.

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We don’t have to choose between nuclear madmen

We can make a difference -- maybe even the difference -- to avert global nuclear annihilation.

What connects Trump’s likely arrest with the bank bailouts?

Let's start with multi-billionaire Peter Thiel, and follow the money.

3 children, 3 adults killed in shooting at Christian elementary school in Nashville

If thoughts and prayers alone worked to stop gun violence, there wouldn't have been a shooting at a Christian elementary school. It's your actions - including weakening the state's gun laws - that's killing kids in Tennessee.

Researchers develop method to permanently destroy toxic ‘forever chemicals’ in water supply

“The results we obtain from these real-world field studies will allow us to further optimize the technology and have it ready."

English lawyers refuse to prosecute climate protestors in ‘declaration of conscience’

“Young lawyers are being placed in an impossible position. We’re being told by our firms and regulators it’s a professional obligation to act for fossil fuel projects, knowing that doing so will poison our own future and all of life on Earth."