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Millionaires, Billionaires, and Teachers
“Now, of these two situations, your average retired public school teacher and Joe, which one gets demonized? Joe, of course.”
http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/12/millionaires_billionaires_and_teachers.html
[ASND simply asks, “Demonized by whom?”]
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The Best Teachers in the World
Why we [in the U.S.] don’t have them and how we could get them.
http://www.hoover.org/publications/defining-ideas/article/134106
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“… compared to every other profession, [government school teachers] are some of the least intelligent people in society…”
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Statisticians slam popular teacher evaluation method
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“This paper seeks to move the [government school teacher evaluation] debate beyond ideology and technical issues by highlighting four key tensions that policymakers, advocates, and educators must consider in the development of new teacher evaluations.”
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Sex With Students:
The big list: Female teachers with students
Most comprehensive account on Internet of women predators on campus
https://www.wnd.com/2014/08/39783/
[Folks, if you haven’t seen that list — which is several years old, now — you’re in for one of the biggest surprises of your life.]
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Women Arrested for Indecent Behavior With Kids
http://crime.about.com/od/sex/ig/female_pedophiles/
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LA teacher arrested for alleged sex with students
http://news.yahoo.com/la-teacher-arrested-alleged-sex-students-175715197.html
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“An instructor at a midtown high school was arrested Tuesday on sex abuse charges for allegedly forcibly touching a 14-year-old student in a sexual manner — the sixth such incident involving a New York City public school employee in recent weeks, police said.”
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“A Hemet High School teacher was arrested Thursday on suspicion of having sex with a student on campus.”
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Former teacher accused of sex with student
http://www.myfoxorlando.com/dpp/news/osceola_news/050312-former-teacher-accused-of-sex-with-student
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Colorado teacher arrested, admits bearing student’s child, police say
http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/jul/17/teachers-aide-accused-of-having-sex-with-student/
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Investigators: King High teacher posed as parent while trying to pick up student for sex
http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/crime/article1241204.ece
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Teacher’s aide accused of sex with student
http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/jul/17/teachers-aide-accused-of-having-sex-with-student/
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Woman algebra teacher had ‘passionate affair with 16-year-old student’ during summer vacation
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Three New Jersey teachers accused of sexual relationships with students
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Good teachers ‘boost test results by 45 per cent’ Children can lose up to half of their marks in end of year tests after being taught by a poor teacher, research suggests.
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Measuring Teacher Effectiveness: Credentials Unrelated to Student Achievement
http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/ib_10.htm
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“More than half of [government school] teachers [in the U.S.] say they feel unqualified to use their state’s financial education standards, and few feel ‘very competent’ lecturing a class on topics such as risk management and debt…”
http://www.usatoday.com/money/perfi/basics/2011-08-12-personal-finance-courses_n.htm
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“Once-a-year evaluations aren’t enough to help [government school] teachers improve, says a report by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.”
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Critical Issues in Assessing Teacher Compensation
http://thf_media.s3.amazonaws.com/2012/pdf/bg2638.pdf
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How a Teachers’ Rally Made Me [Government-based] Anti-Education
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“It’s time for the United States to consider establishing higher standards for math teachers if the nation is going to break its ‘vicious cycle‘ of mediocrity, a Michigan State University education scholar argues in Science magazine.”
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/06/110609151529.htm
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Compensation:
Public-School Teachers are Overpaid, Heritage/AEI Study Finds
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/public-school-teachers-are-overpaid-heritageaei-study-finds
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Dept. of Labor: Public School Teachers Are Highest Paid State Workers; Compensation Doubles the Average in Private Industry
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The Truth About Teacher Pay
http://frontpagemag.com/2011/12/28/the-truth-about-teacher-pay/print/
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“… many New York teachers and the vast majority of police and firefighters are millionaires, because the “net present value” of their retirement benefits is well in excess of $1 million.”
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“Teacher and administrator academic preparation must become more rigorous, and teacher employment more selective… [and] Determine proper compensation and benefits for all public school employees as compared to similar positions in the private sector.“
http://www.ncpa.org/pdfs/ib107.pdf
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A Tale of Two Union Disputes: The NFL vs. Wisconsin Teachers
http://www.visionandvalues.org/2011/03/a-tale-of-two-union-disputes-the-nfl-vs-wisconsin-teachers/
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“… exploiting the power of [financial] loss aversion — teachers are paid in advance and asked to give back the money if their students do not improve sufficiently — increases… teacher quality by more than one standard deviation.“
http://ideas.repec.org/p/nbr/nberwo/18237.html
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Pa. Joins States Facing a School Cheating Scandal
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/01/education/01winerip.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=print
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Dozens of Atlanta Schools Face Federal Penalties for Cheating on Test Scores
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/dozens-atlanta-schools-face-federal-penalties-cheating-test-scores
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Report: Teacher admits to selling grades
http://www.nbc-2.com/story/16047042/2011/11/15/report-teacher-admitted-to-selling-grades
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Teachers’ Unions:
[See, also, the Teachers section on this page .]
The Socialist Vision and Global Connections of the NEA
http://www.crossroad.to/Excerpts/chronologies/nea.htm
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How Strong Are U.S. Teacher Unions?
A State-By-State Comparison
http://www.edexcellence.net/publications/how-strong-are-us-teacher-unions.html
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Chicago Teachers Union President Mocks Arne Duncan, Jokes About Smoking Pot — With Kids in the Audience
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Caught on Tape: Teachers Union President’s Shocking Remarks
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Republican teachers uneasy at Obama-themed union convention
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Teachers Unions Go to Bat for Sexual Predators
The system to review misconduct is rigged so even abusive teachers can stay on the job.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443437504577547313612049308.html
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Teachers’ union chief: Let’s ignore ‘science’ of homosexuality
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=324537
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‘Whatever Means Necessary’
Unions stand in the schoolhouse door against minorities in Louisiana.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444860104577557001406123724.html
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The union, backed by an army of 325,000 teachers and a war chest as sizable as those of the major political parties, can make or break all sorts of deals.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-cta-20120819,0,2647806,print.story
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Louisiana Teachers’ Union Calls Black School Choice Group ‘Pro-KKK‘
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Inside the Chicago Teachers Union Strike
http://frontpagemag.com/2012/volpe/inside-the-chicago-teachers-on-strike/print/
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“… the Chicago Teachers Union is one with the local Marxists.”
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Louisiana [Teachers] Unions Fight School Choice, Opportunity for Children
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“Holly’s [teachers union] dues go to work… for the union… and the union bosses.”
http://freetoteach.org/facts/holly/
[ASND recommends several other pages on that site .]
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Michigan Schools Close[d] as Teachers Le[ft] to Protest Right-to-Work
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Union Violence and Mob Mayhem in Michigan
http://frontpagemag.com/2012/arnold-ahlert/union-violence-and-mob-mayhem-in-michigan/print/
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Teacher at PS 143 in Queens has fifth-graders send letters to her boyfriend… in prison.
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“… not only did the teacher uses profanities in the classroom, he encouraged the students to yell profanities at each other. He told them no words were off limits, but he also cautioned the students not to tell their parents or anyone else.”
http://www.wnd.com/2012/02/lawmaker-says-enough-of-teacher-profanity/print/
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“A high school math teacher known for his volcanic temper was yanked from his Queens classroom after a video caught him spewing spit into a student’s face.“
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Rhode Island high school coach charged with child pornography
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“A California school teacher has quit his job and left his wife and kids to move into an apartment with an 18-year-old student less than half his age.”
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“Other white students also report a pattern of racial harassment at the high school at the hands of their peers — and, shockingly, their teachers.“
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“… many aging radicals from the 1960s and ‘70s have found their way into government school classrooms.”
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“… many aging radicals from the 1960s and ‘70s have found their way into government school classrooms.”
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“A Virginia middle school teacher recently forced his students to support President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign by conducting opposition research in class against the Republican presidential candidates.“
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8 Bizarre [Government] Teacher Scandals You Won’t Believe
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Meredith Pruitt Was Fired For Using Students To Sell Drugs At Forestview High School
http://www.digtriad.com/news/article/223003/57/Teacher-Fired-Used-Students-To-Sell-Drugs-At-School
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“As Harber and his team predicted, the teachers displayed a ‘positive feedback bias,’ providing more praise and less criticism if they thought the essay was written by a minority student than by a white student.“
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120504143023.htm
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Cheating runs rampant
No Child Left Behind has unleashed a nationwide epidemic of cheating. Will education reformers wake up?
http://www.salon.com/2012/05/25/cheating_runs_rampant/print/
[Really? NCLB did that? ASND simply asks, “What was it in NCLB that ‘unleashed a nationwide epidemic of cheating‘?” Was it the required accountability for teachers, to which the rest of the world’s workers are also held (well, except union workers, of course)? The rest of the world simply responds by regularly checking for cheating and then imposing consequences upon cheaters. Why can’t government schools do the same as the rest of the world (well, again, except for union jobs)?]
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Miami-Dade kindergarten teacher charged in house burglary
http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/07/19/2902969/miami-dade-kindergarten-teacher.html#storylink=cpy
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Teacher: another teacher helped students cheat because they were “dumb as hell“
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local/teacher-another-teacher-helped-students-cheat-beca/nRMTc/
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When Teachers aren’t Smarter than a Fifth-grader
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2013/01/when_teachers_arent_smarter_than_a_fifth-grader.html
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Majority of [New York] city’s trainee teachers flunked literacy tests
http://nypost.com/2014/12/08/majority-of-citys-teacher-trainees-flunked-literacy-tests/
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Another Slow News Day 