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School Volunteering
Stresses Parents Out

Pressure to help out a source of anxiety for moms and dads

Oct 15, 09 7:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - With school budgets slashed because of the weak economy, parents are feeling more pressure than ever to volunteer. About 64% of parents surveyed by Harris Interactive say they believe it's more important than ever to pitch in, with 53%—far more than last year— saying they planned to do just... More »

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high school • parents • recession • volunteer • elementary school • teacher

 Teacher Fired for Butt Art 
 Paints Colbert for Charity 

Stan Murmur's auctioning portrait to benefit Va. public schools

Oct 13, 09 8:39 PM CDT
(Newser) - A Virginia teacher fired after a YouTube clip surfaced of him using his posterior to paint is turning the other cheek—and auctioning off a portrait of comedian Stephen Colbert to benefit public schools. Stan Murmur uses what WTVR-TV calls “the anthropometric monotype method of painting. That means he... More »

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entertainment • eBay • art • Comedy Central • Stephen Colbert • art auction • public schools • teacher • Stan Murmur • anthropometric monotype method • butt • posterior

UK Teacher
Jailed for
Lesbian Affair
With Student 

Had sex with girl, 15,
at parents' home

Sep 21, 09 11:53 AM CDT
(Newser) - A London teacher was sentenced today to 15 months in prison for having a lesbian affair with a 15-year-old student. Music teacher Helen Goddard, 26, was banned for life from working with children and will have to register as a sex offender, but will be allowed to see the girl... More »

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sex • sex offenders • affair • student • teacher • Helen Goddard

Fired Teacher 'Leah Lust' Turns to Porn

After 2500 rejected resumes, Shepherd is 'My first sex teacher'

Sep 1, 09 11:55 AM CDT
(Newser) - The biology teacher sacked by a Florida high school for posing in racy bikini pics has found a new line of work: porn. Unable to land a new teaching job after sending out 2,500 resumes, Tiffany Shepherd, 31, is now earning a living as "Leah Lust" in films... More »

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teacher • porn star • porn industry • Tiffany Shepherd

Catholic Teacher Held in 'Murder Attempt' on Student

British science teacher allegedly struck 14-year-old with a weight

Jul 10, 09 1:47 AM CDT
(Newser) - A teacher in a Catholic school in England has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a student he allegedly attacked suffered serious head injuries, reports the Guardian. The teacher assaulted the 14-year-old boy with a weight block used in a science lab as class was about to... More »

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England • children • attack • assault • traumatic brain injury • teacher • students • attempted murder • head injury • Nottinghamshire • Catholic school

 Teacher Sends 
 Kids Home With Porn 

DVD inadvertenly includes 'inappropriate images'

Jul 3, 09 10:52 AM CDT
(Newser) - Fifth graders in northern California got an impromptu sex ed lesson when their teacher handed out DVDs that featured a brief interlude of homemade porn, CBS5 San Francisco reports. The video retrospective of the school year inadvertently included 6 seconds of “inappropriate images” of teacher Crystal Defanti getting busy.... More »

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pornography • sex • sex education • elementary school • sex tape • teacher • Crystal Defanti

Brit Nursery Teacher Busted
in Pedophile Internet Ring

Cops found photos of naked kids in her home

Jun 10, 09 3:10 AM CDT
(Newser) - A British daycare teacher has been busted for suspected involvement in an Internet pedophile ring after photos of naked children were found in her home, reports the Telegraph. A police spokesman said the pictures were "at the top end of the scale." Officials are attempting to identify the... More »

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crime • child molestation • pedophile • toddler • daycare • Britain • sexual assault • teacher • nursery school • Vanessa George

 Fla. Teacher Cops 
 to Sex With Boy, 15; 
 Mom Approves 

15-year-old boy's mother approved of affair

May 27, 09 12:33 PM CDT
(Newser) - A teacher at a Florida private school has resigned and been charged with sexual battery of a child for allegedly carrying on an affair with a 15-year-old student, the Miami Herald reports. Maria Hernandez, 32, was arrested upon the pair's return from Disney World and admitted to sleeping with the... More »

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crime • sex • affair • student • private schools • teacher • religious school

Student Killed
in Teacher's
Love Triangle

Ex-pupil boyfriend held in murder of Ariz. woman's teen lover

Apr 15, 09 7:44 AM CDT
(AP) - An 18-year-old Arizona high school student caught with his 48-year-old math teacher in her bedroom was stabbed to death by her boyfriend, who is himself a former student of hers, police said yesterday. Sixto Balbuena, 20, a Navy sailor on leave, was arrested on a murder charge after police found... More »

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high school • Arizona • murder • student • stabbing • love triangle • teacher

Runaway
Mass. Teacher, Student Found
in W. Va. Hotel

24-year-old charged with enticing 8th-grader

Feb 24, 09 12:45 PM CST
(Newser) - Police today found the 8th-grade teacher who ran off with a 15-year-old student, WWLP-TV reports. Massachusetts police tracked a financial trail to find the pair at a hotel in West Virginia. They alerted the local cops, who arrested 24-year-old Lisa Lavoie this morning on charges of enticing a minor. She... More »

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Massachusetts • student • missing child • teacher • minor • Lisa Lavoie

8th-Grade Boy, Female Teacher Go Missing

Mass. pair said to be in relationship; may be headed to Canada

Feb 24, 09 7:09 AM CST
(Newser) - A male 8th-grader and a 22-year-old female teacher at his Holyoke, Mass., school have both been reported missing and are suspected of running off together, the Republican reports. Federal and local authorities are searching for them after the 15-year-old’s parents raised concerns about a relationship earlier this month, and... More »

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Massachusetts • disappearance • relationship • missing person • missing student • teacher

Coach Quits After Facebook Flirting With 14-Year-Old

Cops eye 'inappropriate messages' to student

Feb 17, 09 2:53 PM CST
(Newser) - An Atlanta gym teacher is the subject of a criminal probe following allegations that he sent “inappropriate messages” via Facebook to a 14-year-old female student, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. The girl’s sister reportedly found the offending messages and told her mother, who contacted police. More »

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Atlanta • Facebook • Georgia • student • high school basketball • scandal • gym • teacher • physical education

Student Sues Over Facebook Suspension

Constitutional case
asks if school can limit online expression

Dec 9, 08 3:39 PM CST
(Newser) - With the help of the ACLU, a Florida high school grad is suing a former principal for violating her constitutional rights in suspending her for “cyber-bullying” a teacher, the Miami Herald reports. Katherine Evans created a Facebook page railing against her “worst teacher,” and asked classmates to... More »

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high school • Facebook • ACLU • cyberbullying • freedom of speech • teenager • teacher • harrassment

glossies

To Groom Good Teachers, Look to Quarterbacks

Schools, NFL face surprisingly similar recruiting hurdles

Dec 8, 08 3:31 PM CST
(Newser) - Underperforming public schools can take a lesson from the NFL, but it's not an easy one, writes Malcolm Gladwell in the New Yorker. In much the same way that accurately evaluating a college quarterback is impossible, predicting a teacher's classroom success depends on countless intangibles. "No one knows what... More »

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education • NFL • teaching • quarterback • teacher • success

Brits Launch Classroom 'Terror Watch'

Teachers asked
to watch out for
extremist students

Oct 8, 08 3:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - British teachers will be asked to monitor student behavior and report any suspected extremists to police under new government guidelines, the Guardian reports. A "tool kit" for teachers sets out how they should conduct classroom debates to smoke out any possible Islamic extremist  or far-right racist views across all... More »

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terrorism • United Kingdom • British terror attacks • school • Islamic extremists • Britain • teacher • students

 42% Would Dump Job to Teach 

But schools will have to show them the money

Sep 11, 08 2:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - Almost half—42%—of college-educated adults would consider becoming teachers, the Christian Science Monitor reports.That's good news, since US schools will be on the hunt for 3 million to 5 million teachers by 2020, thanks to rising enrollment and baby boomers who are laying down the chalk. But to... More »

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education • public schools • teacher pay • career • teacher • second career

Dutch Teacher Discovers Green 'Space Ghost'

Accidental find is hot gas ball reflecting far-off galactic light

Aug 10, 08 2:14 PM CDT
(Newser) - A Dutch schoolteacher earned her moment in the sun by discovering a cosmic ball of gas some have labeled a space “ghost,” NPR reports. Hanny van Arkel, 25, was working as a volunteer with a galaxy-classifying website when she came upon what “looked like a regular galaxy... More »

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Netherlands • black hole • quasars • galaxy • Ghost • teacher • outer space

Teacher
Who Branded Students Fired

He slammed evolution, burned crosses onto 8th-graders' arms

Jun 21, 08 8:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - An Ohio school board has voted unanimously to fire a science teacher who used an electrostatic device to brand 8th-graders with a cross, the AP reports. Science teacher John Freshwater, who says the marks were simply Xs, had been in trouble with the board before for teaching creationism, slamming evolution... More »

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creationism • school • branding • science education • middle school • teacher

 YouTube Lets Ballerinas DIY 

But teachers are 'horrified', cite potential for injury

Jun 3, 08 2:44 PM CDT
(Newser) - Formal ballet is one of the most rigid education systems in art—dancers spend years doing exercises before they are even allowed to purchase pointe shoes. But some students are abandoning the hierarchy and turning to a less-stringent, modern master—YouTube. The Wall Street Journal takes a look at aspiring... More »

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YouTube • ballet • American Ballet Theatre • dance • teacher

Young Teachers Finding Big Trouble Online

Facebook, MySpace pages test boundaries between public, private

Apr 28, 08 12:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - Questionable postings and photos on social-networking web pages are becoming an issue with younger US teachers, the Washington Post reports, raising questions about where to draw a line between private expression and standards for public employees. A case in point is a substitute special-education teacher whose page includes a so-called... More »

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education • social networking • MySpace • Facebook • school • teacher

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