Education
New Chicago trend: charter school teachers unionize
March 25, 2010One hundred teachers at four Chicago charter schools filed for union recognition March 19, joining 123 others who won their first contract last year.
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A teacher speaks her mind
March 23, 2010I would hate to think that all of my effort could be cast aside because some standardized test or other incomplete measurement suggested that I was not doing a good job.
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Student loan victory
March 22, 2010Young people and their parents had two reasons to celebrate yesterday's passage of the sweeping health care reform bill.
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March Madness comes with insane price
March 17, 2010Everyone who loves college basketball, loves March Madness. But the price is costly and unacceptable.
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Obama school plan has pluses but big minuses, teachers and others warn
March 17, 2010The administration's education "blueprint" discards some of the No Child Left Behind law's much-criticized features, but keeps or adds others that teachers, their unions and other public school advocates oppose.
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