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A substitute teacher in New Jersey’s Atlantic County school district was suspended for telling a 7-year-old female student that she was “too sexy” for gym class. (more)

In 2008, teacher assistant Johanna Munoz helped her Orlando-area fourth-graders on the state achievement test. (more)

Wisconsin is now ground zero in the battle between fiscal sanity and leftists prepared to celebrate a complete financial breakdown so that people who already get three months off every summer can get paid more money than others. This money will most likely be used to finance protests where the cause will be the right to make more money, get more time off, do less work, and attend more protests. (more)

FEASTERVILLE, Pa. (AP) — A high school English teacher in suburban Philadelphia who was suspended for a profanity-laced blog in which she called her young charges “disengaged, lazy whiners” is driving a debate by daring to ask: Why are today’s students unmotivated — and what’s wrong with calling them out? (more)

A teacher who advises colleagues on how to avoid affairs with students was caught having sex with a teenager in the back of her car. (more)

On January 28, 1986, seventy three seconds after liftoff, the space shuttle Challenger exploded, killing all on board. (more)

1.) Remember: You’re a liar and/or an idiot if you call it ‘a government takeover of health care’ — Tomorrow, a group of bureaucrats will meet to determine which treatments private insurance companies will be mandated to cover, and for how long. “The Obama administration faces a tough balancing act,” writes Kaiser Health News. “The benefits package must be broad enough to be comprehensive but not too broad as to be unaffordable. Patient advocates and industry lobbyists already are drawing up wish lists for items they want covered – including autism therapy, obesity treatments, infertility treatments and unlimited chemotherapy visits.” AEI’s Joe Antos told KHN, “This is an invitation for all kinds of lobbying from every conceivable disease group and provider group in the country.” For instance: Joe Nadglowski, CEO of the Obesity Action Coalition, thinks insurers should be required to cover bariatric surgery. “Adding a wider range of treatments would raise premium costs, Nadglowski acknowledges, but could save money over time if people sought both prevention and treatment for obesity.” That’s a lot of ifs. (more)

As students returned to class this week, some were carrying brand-new Apple iPads in their backpacks, given not by their parents but by their schools. (more)

Registered sex offenders are getting jobs in schools as teachers, administrators, volunteers and contractors, despite state laws that prohibit them from contact with children, a government watchdog report says. (more)

A beloved Bronx teacher had a miscarriage Wednesday after she was hit trying to break up a fight between two students, sources and students told the Daily News. (more)

With all the talk about how Americans need to keep working longer to shore up Social Security, we’ve overlooked the bureaucratic hurdles that discourage work at older ages.  Absurd licensing requirements pose a major barrier to entry and limit choices for those contemplating a change to a job with more flexibility and opportunities for part-time work. (more)

In a dramatic ending to a more than five-hour standoff, a 15-year-old Marinette High School student armed with two handguns shot himself Monday after police stormed a classroom where he held 23 students and a teacher hostage. (more)

Many, if not most, discussions of American education begin with curriculum. Do we need more math and science? Are the arts and physical education being ignored or unreasonably minimized? Are the historical “facts” being taught accurate or biased? Is the Constitution or anything to do with civics even in the curriculum? Should the concept of what is now called “intelligent design” be offered as a scientifically sound alternative to Darwinism? Should there be two tracks, one that leads to college and one that leads to trade? These are all valid concerns. (more)

What if all the desperate problems in American education had already been solved? (more)

NOVEMBER 18–A Texas science teacher charged with having sex with a male student first engaged in illicit conduct while the teen was hospitalized for an injury sustained during a high school football game. (more)

To see how Tuesday’s midterm rout will change the face of Congress, look no farther than the Bible Belt of southwest Missouri. Voters there replaced Rep. Roy Blunt, a savvy insider, with Billy Long, a smack-talking auctioneer with no college degree but a pithy slogan: “Fed Up.” (more)

New Jersey Republican Gov. Chris Christie on Tuesday lauded conservative activist James O’Keefe’s video, that showed teachers railing on the governor and bragging about the benefits of tenure at a teachers’ union conference, for demonstrating what he has been saying about New Jersey teachers’ unions for a long time. (more)

Conservative activist James O’Keefe released two new videos in Monday in which unionized New Jersey educators appear to boast about how it’s virtually impossible to fire tenured teachers, even those who make racist statements to students. (more)

In an election season marked by debates over the virtues of the public sector, and amidst claims by teachers’ unions and their allies that private schooling is inimical to good democratic citizenship, a new national study reports that private school teachers are at least as committed to promoting traditional notions of citizenship as their public school counterparts. (more)

“Waiting for Superman” (2010). Davis Guggenheim, director. Paramount/Vantage, 102 minutes.  Documentary.  (more)