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Worth Ave. Group, a full service electronics device insurance provider, is pleased to announce the official launch of its ‘Technology in Education’ grant giveaway program. Designed to advance educational opportunities with technology across K-12 schools nationwide, the winning schools, individuals and “Best Teacher in America” will receive more than $150,000 in money and prizes.Worth Ave. Group, a full service electronics device insurance provider, is pleased to... more
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Watch as Wisconsin teacher Al Levie refuse the MLK Gateway College Humanitarian Award from Ryan for being "a lackey for the One Percent".
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002223822
"Right on Al, great Job!!!!" =)Watch as Wisconsin teacher Al Levie refuse the MLK Gateway College Humanitarian Award... more
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Okay, I switched off the news stations and put on sports radio figuring I need a break. Oh yea, that is just what I needed. NOT!!! Here we are with over 14 million people out of work. We have many who have had unemployment run out. We have people living in their cars. The Food Pantries are running out of food. But here on talk radio, what are they talking about? The insanity for the Marlins owners to offer Albert Pujols a $200 million ten year deal.Okay, I switched off the news stations and put on sports radio figuring I need a... more
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Voters on Tuesday defeated a substantially limits the teachers, police and other public sector workers and trade union representatives of the power law. The law would deprive the country's 350,000 most of the right to collective bargaining and forced workers to pay for their medical care costs of at least 15% of public sector employees. Precincts reporting, 97%, 61% of voters in the referendum voted against, while 39% support, Republicans support the law, known as Senate Bill 5
http://latestcountrynews.blogspot.com/2011/11/ohio-voters-reject-public-union-limits.htmlVoters on Tuesday defeated a substantially limits the teachers, police and other... more
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Let's see will DUMB or SMART voters vote TEAPARTY? Not a trick question when: " in the last three Republican debates was effectively limited to which candidate would do more to cut education funding, eliminate quality standards for schools and in some cases, undermine the entire public school system" http://tinyurl.com/3lz9kamLet's see will DUMB or SMART voters vote TEAPARTY? Not a trick question when:... more
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Tacoma judge orders TEN striking litigants back to work: Forgetting thousands of striking teachers
It is ironic that a court order was faithfully obeyed in which the litigants were ordered back to work. And back to work they went: all ten of them. The funny part is that the order forgot to add the thousands of striking teachers!Tacoma judge orders TEN striking litigants back to work: Forgetting thousands of... more
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The advocates of societal ignorance have taken down the Wisconsin Public School System so that they might create a new generation of corporate drones to drool for dollars.
Thousands of experienced Wisconsin teachers (an essential ingredient of a democratic society) are retiring rather than take pay cuts imposed by the corporate fascist governor.The advocates of societal ignorance have taken down the Wisconsin Public School System... more
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Christ Consciousness, can be defined as a state of awareness within ones’ consciousness. Where a blending of the human evolutionary mind (ego), with the divine mind (spirit) and the universal awareness of consciousness is transformed into a higher self state of consciousness (divinity). Thus arriving at the highest state of intellectual development and emotional maturity, termed the “Christ State.” This name reflects to the sacredness and purity of the individual who has ascended into this superior spiritual realm while on earth.
Christ is revered as a universal symbol of the physical and spiritual manifestation of the eternal, pure, and unconditional love of God. However, Christ, is a threefold entity. Firstly, the historic ‘Christ Jesus of Nazareth’, who attained the Christ consciousness through the ‘flesh’; secondly, the ‘Christ Higher Self’ that exists within the spiritual heavens and is our own personal inner teacher that guides us through intuition and higher thought as the ‘living word of God’; and thirdly, the ‘Christ Consciousness’, which is the Collective Christ Consciousness and is, symbolically, the ‘Sun/Son of God’.Christ Consciousness, can be defined as a state of awareness within ones’... more
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Writing for the Huffington Post, reporters Jason Cherkis and Zach Carter published a jaw-dropping story yesterday about a scheme by Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX) to “set up a business of teacher death speculation.” Perry and his officials entered negotiations in 2003 with the Switzerland-based multinational bank UBS to allow the firm to buy life insurance policies on public teachers, then package the policies into securities that could be sold to speculators across the world. As teachers died, the securities would become profitable, and the money from the plans would be split between UBS and the Texas government.
An intriguing twist to the story is former Sen. Phil Gramm (R-TX), who joined UBS as a top executive after he left the Senate and has served as a political mentor to Perry since the late ’80s. Gramm, an architect of Wall Street deregulation while in Congress, aggressively lobbied the “gruesome” deal:
Gramm and UBS had concocted a gruesome combination of what are now regarded as two of the most infamous Wall Street scams on record. The resulting package closely resembled the growing market for mortgage-backed securities, but instead of allowing Wall Street to bet on peoples’ homes, it would enable bets on peoples’ lives. [...]
http://tinyurl.com/3d6e6beWriting for the Huffington Post, reporters Jason Cherkis and Zach Carter published a... more
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One in four primary schools in England still has no male registered teacher, statistics show.General Teaching Council for England figures show a slight improvement on last year, with 27.2% schools with no male teachers, down from 27.8%.
Link : http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-14748273One in four primary schools in England still has no male registered teacher,... more
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The 9th Circuit Court ruled in favor of a high school teacher sued by a student upset over the fact that Christianity, literal interpretations of the Bible and creationism were mocked openly.The 9th Circuit Court ruled in favor of a high school teacher sued by a student upset... more
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More than a third of teachers have been subject to online abuse, according to a survey conducted by Plymouth University.
Link : http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14527103More than a third of teachers have been subject to online abuse, according to a survey... more
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Nation of adults who will write like children?
By Katia Hetter, Special to CNN
August 10, 2011 2:04 p.m. EDT
Miley Cyrus's and Justin Bieber's handwriting in Habbo Celebrity "Advice to My Teenage Self."
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Critics are upset that cursive writing classes are being kicked out of more schools
Teacher: "Handwritten documents convey important cultural information"
Another critic fears adults in the years to come will write like children
Autograph seller says stars under age 30 already have sloppy writing
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(CNN) -- A glance at teen stars Miley Cyrus and Justin Bieber's letters to their younger selves makes one thing clear: their handwriting is terrible. In the letters, part of the Habbo Celebrity "Advice to My Teenage Self" book, the content is messy and their cursive signatures are barely legible.
The handwriting of today's teen stars "is so atrocious, it's talked about and recognized through the industry," says Justin King, a Toronto-based paparazzi for Flynet Pictures and independent autograph seller. "With stars ages 30 and above, they generally have a much more full, legible signature. When you deal with these new people like [teen actress] Elle Fanning, you're lucky if you get an E and F and a heart for her signature."
It's just not the teen stars who can't write properly. Most states don't require children to learn cursive writing anymore. Some 46 states have adopted the Common Core Standards, a set of educational guidelines that do not require cursive writing as part of a school's curriculum. The state of Indiana recently announced it would drop a district requirement to teach cursive writing as of this fall. Instead, students must be able to type on keyboards.
How friends, family spark handwriting change
Technology has pushed cursive writing off the agenda of many school systems across the country. As a result, Handwriting Without Tears founder Jan Olsen sees more sloppy handwriting in schools today.
"If you stop teaching handwriting in the second grade, you're going to have a generation of people who write like second graders," says Olsen, whose company teaches a clean and simple style of cursive that avoids the fancy curls and swirls of old-fashioned script.
Are we becoming a country of adults who write like children? Will we be able to understand the power of John Hancock's actual signature on the Declaration of Independence if we can't read the original document? How can we feel the magic of Jane Austen's earliest, unpublished, handwritten manuscript, "The Watsons," which recently sold for $1.6 million at auction?
Will younger generations not know the powerful emotions that come from receiving a handwritten love letter that describes all the love someone else feels for you? What about the fear and courage that comes from writing your first love letter that contains all the love you feel for someone else?
'Snail Mail' project promotes art of letters
"Handwritten documents convey important cultural information about authors," says Davis Schneiderman, novelist and chair of the English Department at Lake Forest College. "These documents also suggest an authenticity that electronically produced documents do not. The Declaration is an index of its time as well as clue to the physicality of its signers. Imagine 'John Hancock' typed in an 18-point Times New Roman font. The proud fury behind his oversized signature would be lost."
Retired schoolteacher Carol Collin also mourns the loss of cursive in children's lives. "They miss the sense of pride they get when they can write neatly and elegantly in cursive instead of only knowing manuscript [print]," says Collin, who taught for 40 years in the Monterey Peninsula Unified School District in California and still substitute teaches. "There are many times in school and as an adult where being able to write elegantly is an advantage. Prospective employers will be impressed by clear, readable, attractive writing."
Educators warn of negative effects of not teaching cursive
Granted, most workplaces are more likely to be dominated by computers and technology than pens and pencils and handwritten thank you notes. Its makes sense that computers are the go-to resource for researching and writing papers and other homework assignments.
And some writing experts aren't worried about children not being able to read the original Declaration of Independence or sign their names in cursive. Historical documents can be reprinted in print form and children can be taught to sign their names in cursive for legal documents and birthday cards.
Handwriting has never been a static art
Yet teens who can't write legibly -- multimillionaire teen celebrities aside -- do suffer. Even though many children use computers to write papers at home, most writing done within the school walls is still done by hand. (The country's ongoing economic problems won't likely add many computers to our nation's public school classrooms in the next few years.)
"Without it [cursive handwriting] you lose the sense of having your thought process through your hand movements to create your language and thoughts to someone else," says Michael Sull, a master penman in Spencerian script; past president of the International Association of Master Penmen, Engrossers and Teachers of Handwriting; and author of four books on handwriting including, "American Cursive Handwriting," which was released last month. "There is a great loss in the progress that could be made with children fostering their motor skill development, literacy training and concepts of communication."
Sloppiness makes the reader think the writer's ideas aren't any good, studies show. "If you have sloppy handwriting, people make [negative] judgments about the quality of your ideas," says Steven Graham, professor of education at Vanderbilt University.
And poor handwriting slows down the writer. If you write slowly, your hand may not be able to keep up with your mind's attempt to have a thought, form it into a sentence and remember it long enough to write it down. "Until you can do this skill quickly and without thinking, it will interfere with your output," says Graham. "You better learn to write."
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Nation of adults who will write like children?
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At least 178 teachers and principals in Atlanta Public Schools were recently caught cheating to raise student scores on high-stakes standardized testsAt least 178 teachers and principals in Atlanta Public Schools were recently caught... more
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British teachers and public-sector workers swapped classrooms and offices for picket lines Thursday as hundreds of thousands walked off the job to protest pension cuts.British teachers and public-sector workers swapped classrooms and offices for picket... more
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Holly Marie Polson, 35-year-old married mother of 4 from Palmdale, California, had been arrested for allegedly engaging in repeated sexual episodes with a 13-year-old boy.
Polson, who worked as a teacher's aide at an Antelope Valley middle school, faces four felony counts of lewd acts with a child she was supposed to be tutoring the 13-year-old after school. The victim and suspect allegedly engaged in several acts of sexual intercourse while in a vacant classroom on the school campus. According to the boy, during the past two weeks, he has had sexual intercourse with an Instructional Aide at his school. Officers say Polson confessed to the affair and admitted to several instances of having sexual intercourse with the young boy on school grounds when she was arrested at her family home on last Tuesday.
http://femalesexoffenders.com/fso/index.php/the-news/360-holly-polson-arrestedHolly Marie Polson, 35-year-old married mother of 4 from Palmdale, California, had... more
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Jennifer Sowa Smith, 29-year-old teacher at Steel Valley High School, Munhall, Pennsylvania, is facing charges that she sent sexually explicit pictures of herself to at least five male students.
According to the criminal court docket, Jennifer Sowa Smith was arraigned at District Judge Thomas Torkowsky's office on several charges, including two felony counts each of unlawful contact with a minor and corruption of minors, another felony count of criminal use of a communication facility and a misdemeanor charge of endangering the welfare of children. Bail was set at $25,000.
Court documents say the Steel Valley High School teacher sent nude pictures of herself to the teens, two of whom were under 16. Smith is also accused of propositioning at least two of the teens.
Smith texted photos of her breasts and vagina, according to a criminal complaint. She is not accused of sexually assaulting any of the students.
Detectives began investigating after Steel Valley Principal Jeff Soles interviewed four students about receiving inappropriate texts from Smith. Students circulated the photos among themselves, though Smith told them to delete them, the complaint said.
Smith told a student she wanted to have sex with him on her desk, but he said he didn't want to cheat on his girlfriend, the complaint said. Also in one of the text message exchanges Smith told a student that she wanted to perform oral sex on him after school in her class. From March 15 to April 20, the two traded more than 250 text messages, according to the complaint.
http://femalesexoffenders.com/fso/index.php/the-news/351-jennifer-smith-arrestedJennifer Sowa Smith, 29-year-old teacher at Steel Valley High School, Munhall,... more
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Dorothy Elizabeth Dixon, 29-year-old special needs teacher at Northgate High School, Coweta County, Georgia, has been arrested on allegations that she had sex with a 15-year-old male student.
Reportedly Dixon's husband reportedly found sex texts on his wife's phone and tipped local officers about he possible sexual relationship between female teacher and a male special needs student.
Maj. James Yarbrough of the Coweta County Sheriff’s Office said Dixon’s husband saw messages on his wife’s phone and originally thought those communications were with a adult male. But what Dixon told him when he confronted her, said Yarbrough, was that she had been having relations with a 15-year-old boy who had been a former student that she had taught in a special needs class at Northgate.
Dixon allegedly had been involved in the relationship with the 15-year-old for several months and the two had him in different locations.
http://femalesexoffenders.com/fso/index.php/the-news/344-dorothy-dixon-arrestedDorothy Elizabeth Dixon, 29-year-old special needs teacher at Northgate High School,... more
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Amy Kathleen Caudle, 31-year-old teacher at Andalusia Middle School, Alabama, has pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree sodomy for sexually abusing students.
As a result of the plea deal with prosecutors, she was sentenced to 15 years for each count, to be served concurrently. She will serve three years, with credit for time already served in the county jail, and will have 12 years of supervised probation.
Caudle was arrested back in March this year, for allegedly sexually abusing three students. She let slip to a former school employee that she performed sex acts with at least two students. The employee informed police Caudle was arrested a short time later.
According to Chief Assistant District Attorney, Caudle performed oral sex on two underage victims multiple times between November 2010 and February 2011. The incidents in question took place in her vehicle, one on Bray Street in Andalusia and one in Johnson Park.
http://femalesexoffenders.com/fso/index.php/the-news/340-amy-caudleAmy Kathleen Caudle, 31-year-old teacher at Andalusia Middle School, Alabama, has... more
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