Teachers

A substitute teacher at an upstate school district has been fired after authorities learned that he was convicted on Long Island -- decades ago -- of killing his girlfriend's 2-year-old daughter by deliberately hitting her in a karate demonstration....

A substitute teacher imprisoned in the 1970s for contributing to a Long Island toddler's death by hitting her with karate blows ended up teaching again in rural western New York almost a decade ago. The state Education Department said Friday that Harold...

Julie Barrett, chairwoman of the social studies department at Grafton High School, started teaching 16 years ago to give back to her community and contribute to the public good. For Barrett, teaching was the perfect way to do just that. She's been a...

A Los Angeles school district administrator who allegedly failed to report a sexual encounter between a teacher and a student pleaded no contest today, and a second official facing similar allegations will appear in court next week, officials said. Jesus...

Update: State Sen. James Meeks (D-Chicago) called off his two-day boycott of Chicago Public Schools late Wednesday, saying he was heeding Gov. Rod Blagojevich's admonition that he wouldn't discuss Illinois school funding while students were kept out of...

Expressing solidarity with public schools in their fight against violence, Chicago's Roman Catholic educators on Wednesday condemned the recent spate of student killings and issued a peace pledge with new plans to curb conflicts inside their own schools...

Sixth-grade math was a lesson in time management for Jonathan Swann. His second-period advanced math class at Chesapeake Bay Middle School started about 9:40 or so. The teacher got everyone settled and engaged in the lesson, and about 40 minutes later,...

RAISED IN poverty, Dr. Shauna Blake Collins fought fear during nearly 14 years of education. A dropout from a South-Central Los Angeles high school, she earned a GED diploma at 22, became a licensed vocational nurse, a registered nurse, and finally, at...

Susan A. Goglia, a retired Howard County teacher and principal who was as comfortable arguing for students' needs before superintendents as she was teaching reading to first-graders, died Friday of colon cancer at Gilchrist Hospice Care. She was 59. "She...

As freshmen arrived on campus last week, Lake Forest College President Stephen Schutt proposed giving them a hands-on lesson in responsible drinking. Along with lectures and courses on the dangers of alcohol, Schutt suggested hosting an event where...

Woods Presbyterian Church, 611 Baltimore-Annapolis Blvd., will honor and bless educators during the 9:30 a.m. and 11 a.m. services today. Teachers, principals and other educators from the congregation and from local schools are invited to worship and...

This is in response to "Illinois' ACT scores improve even as more students take test" (Metro, Aug. 13). Hold on! The article reports on college readiness for "all 2008 graduates" on the 2008 Prairie State results. The test is given to juniors, not...