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• Teachers in Mexico break windows, torch offices to protest anti-union reforms
• Op-Ed: Teachers Aren’t Widgets That Can Just Be Replaced
• Penn State applications down 9 percent this year
• Teachers trash Mexican political party offices in regional capital
• Danish government stops Danish teachers lockout
• Mexican teachers attack political party offices
• Lockdowns lifted at 2 North Carolina colleges

Teachers in Mexico break windows, torch offices to protest anti-union reforms Posted: 25 Apr 2013 02:39 PM PDT Mexican teachers and teachers-in-training once again abandoned lesson plans to protest education reform in the southwestern state of Guerrero this week.

Op-Ed: Teachers Aren’t Widgets That Can Just Be Replaced Posted: 25 Apr 2013 02:01 PM PDT May 7 marks the annual celebration of National Teacher Appreciation Day in the United States. Approximately 3.5 million teachers will be applauded by their communities for the hard work they do and the sacrifices they make each and every day. Staff lounges will be stocked with sweets, treats, and lunch goods. Tokens will be shared, cards written, and banners hung. Teachers will be thanked for the countless hours they labor in classrooms, planning, grading, and doing whatever it takes to make sure that each and every one of their students has what they need in order to succeed.

Penn State applications down 9 percent this year Posted: 25 Apr 2013 09:19 AM PDT Population declines and concerns over how to pay for a college education contributed to a roughly 9 percent decline in applications to Penn State this year, university officials said. There were nearly ...

Teachers trash Mexican political party offices in regional capital Posted: 25 Apr 2013 08:54 AM PDT By Luis Enrique Martinez ACAPULCO, Mexico (Reuters) - Angry teachers on Wednesday attacked offices of Mexico's main political parties in the capital of the southwestern state of Guerrero to protest against an education overhaul, breaking windows, spray-painting walls and starting fires. Dozens of teachers opposed to President Enrique Pena Nieto's new education reform ran riot in the city of Chilpancingo, trashing installations of his Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and the main opposition parties. Police were nowhere to be seen. ...

Danish government stops Danish teachers lockout Posted: 25 Apr 2013 06:08 AM PDT The Danish government has proposed emergency legislation aiming to put an end to a lockout of some 52,000 teachers that has shut schools throughout the country for the past four weeks. Prime Minister Helle ...

Mexican teachers attack political party offices Posted: 25 Apr 2013 05:40 AM PDT Striking teachers in Mexico's Guerrero state attacked the offices of four political parties and a building of the state's education department Wednesday after the legislature approved an education reform ...

Lockdowns lifted at 2 North Carolina colleges Posted: 12 Apr 2013 02:36 PM PDT DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — Lockdowns for two North Carolina college campuses were lifted Friday after separate incidents involving reports of guns.

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