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• Texas Lt. Gov.: Fund weapons training for teachers
• Standardized test backlash: Some Seattle teachers just say 'no'
• High Schoolers Control Satellites Aboard Space Station
• The Lt. Governor of Texas Wants to Arm Teachers
• Report: More failing teachers in NYC poor areas
• Bill would restore $5.4B cut from Texas schools
• Hundreds of Texas, Ohio teachers flock to gun training
• Everything We Know About the Hero Teachers from the California Shooting
• Educators Agree—The Three Rs Aren’t Always Their Biggest Concern

Texas Lt. Gov.: Fund weapons training for teachers Posted: 11 Jan 2013 04:29 PM PST AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst called Friday for state-funded, specialized firearms training for teachers and administrators to guard against school shootings.

Standardized test backlash: Some Seattle teachers just say 'no' Posted: 11 Jan 2013 03:04 PM PST Forty-five minutes after school let out Thursday afternoon, 19 teachers here at Seattle's Garfield High School worked their way to the front of an already-crowded classroom, then turned, leaned their backs against the wall of whiteboards, and fired the first salvo of open defiance against high-stakes standardized testing in America's public schools.

High Schoolers Control Satellites Aboard Space Station Posted: 11 Jan 2013 02:25 PM PST Would you trust a 16-year-old in space? NASA evidently does. Just after the sun rose on the East Coast today (Jan. 11), astronauts aboard the International Space Station ran computer instructions, written by high school students, in bowling ball-size satellites floating inside the ISS cabin. The students' code told the satellites exactly where to go to complete challenges such as spitting out dust clouds and avoiding obstacles.

The Lt. Governor of Texas Wants to Arm Teachers Posted: 11 Jan 2013 01:44 PM PST You can add David Dewhurst, the Lieutenant Governor of Texas, to the lengthening list of state politicians who want to arm public school teachers. Dewhurst, fresh off his November loss to new Senator Ted Cruz, called for implementing state-sponsored gun training programs geared toward teachers during a speech today at the conservative Texas Public Policy Center in Austin. Following a nomination process, Dewhurst explained, teachers would be allowed to carry a gun during classroom instruction.

Report: More failing teachers in NYC poor areas Posted: 11 Jan 2013 09:26 AM PST A new report has found that students in poor neighborhoods of New York City are more likely to have bad teachers.The StudentsFirstNY report said that 3.4 percent of teachers in those neighborhoods were ...

Bill would restore $5.4B cut from Texas schools Posted: 11 Jan 2013 07:10 AM PST A bill filed in the Texas House would restore all of the $5.4 billion cut from the state's public schools in 2011.Its sponsor is Fort Worth Democratic Rep. Lon Burnam. He says Texas' rosier economic picture ...

Hundreds of Texas, Ohio teachers flock to gun training Posted: 10 Jan 2013 11:16 PM PST CLEVELAND/SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - School teachers in Texas are flocking to free firearms classes and hundreds more in Ohio have signed up for training in the wake of the Connecticut elementary school massacre, some vowing to protect their students with guns even at the risk of losing their jobs. In Ohio, more than 900 teachers, administrators and school employees signed up for the Buckeye Firearms Association's newly created, three-day gun training program, the association said. ...

Everything We Know About the Hero Teachers from the California Shooting Posted: 10 Jan 2013 07:38 PM PST As details emerged from Thursday's shooting at Taft High School in Taft, California, the teacher present in the classroom and a classroom superviser emerged as heroes for successfully talking the gunman into putting his shotgun down and surrendering before police arrived.

Educators Agree—The Three Rs Aren’t Always Their Biggest Concern Posted: 10 Jan 2013 04:56 PM PST Shouldn't education go beyond reading, writing and arithmetic?

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