teaching

Here's how teachers can stay true to history without breaking new laws that restrict what they can teach about racism in a way that’s fair, true and completely accurate.

Republican Oklahoma state Rep. Jim Olsen has filed House Bill 2988, which would prohibit teaching "that one race is the unique oppressor" or "another race is the unique victim in the institution of slavery.”

The most inappropriate incidents.

A Georgia grandmother is demanding answers after her grandson with special needs was allegedly found hanging by his belt from the chalkboard as a form of punishment administered by his teacher, reports the New York Daily News. Tracy Davis says the principal at Shoal Creek Elementary School in Conyers, Georgia found the 5-year-old in the disturbing […]

A substitute teacher at a middle school in Prince Georges County, Maryland is being investigated on charges of disciplining students with a belt last week, according to Washington D.C.’s Fox 5. In the video, the unnamed male teacher can be seen hoisting a belt and thrusting it down forcefully toward the floor at what appears […]

“You’re our hero!” Support for the now-suspended New Jersey teacher who allowed her third-graders to write get-well letters to former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal was undeniable at an Orange Public School Board meeting Tuesday. Individuals flanking both sides of Marilyn Zuniga called for her reinstatement while she appealed to the board to allow her to continue […]

After being found guilty of the largest cheating scandal in the nation, 10 former Atlanta educators were sentenced Tuesday, some up to seven years in prison. Judge Jerry Baxter of Fulton County Superior Court sentenced the educators to less stringent prison terms than the 20 years previously expected, USA Today reports. The educators were accused of taking part in a cheating scandal by changing […]