Posts Tagged ‘government’

ATLANTA (AP) — Dave Ebersbach lost his job as a math teacher this summer, and he spends each day hoping that his poverty-stricken school in Ohio will call up and offer him his position back. He and thousands of other teachers around the country could get their jobs back now that the Senate has approved an emergency stimulus package designed to keep educators and other public employees out of the unemployment line. ANALYSIS: Teacher pension funds are short billions SURVEY: Self-evaluation better than parent, student evaluation, teachers say “My biggest thing is I want to go back to the school I was at for the students,” said Ebersbach, 43, one of 14 math teachers in the Toledo school district to receive notice a few weeks ago that their jobs were cut

Friday, August 6th, 2010 at 21:58 0 comments

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Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010 at 20:34 0 comments

MIDDLE SCHOOL students are champion time-wasters. And the personal computer may be the ultimate time-wasting appliance. Put the two together at home, without hovering supervision, and logic suggests that you won’t witness a miraculous educational transformation.

Saturday, July 10th, 2010 at 18:36 0 comments

Students taking out federal student loans will be confronted with a bevy of changes when they visit their school ’s financial aid office this fall. This spring, the U.S.

Friday, July 9th, 2010 at 16:08 0 comments

The Education Department said Tuesday that it had split off and delayed a decision on the most controversial part of proposed new student-aid regulations — the treatment of for-profit college programs whose graduates do not earn enough to repay their loans.

Wednesday, June 16th, 2010 at 05:12 0 comments