[Cincinatus' Wife]

Teachers from Philippines arrive in Boston to teach math and science***Boston Teachers Union president Edward Doherty said he supports the city's hiring of foreign teachers if officials can't find anyone qualified locally. That's the case, Joyce said.'' We have an obligation to children to find the best math teachers we can find, wherever we can find them,'' he said.

At first it seemed as though the Philippine teachers wouldn't make it. Bureaucratic problems with obtaining visas for the teachers delayed their arrivalfor several weeks. US Representative Michael Capuano and Senator Edward M. Kennedy, both Massachusetts Democrats, worked with the Immigration and Naturalization Service to speed up the process.***

To solve students' math problems, eucators go to school - Boosting teacher skills seen as key*** The report also recommends that colleges and universities boost their math requirements for education majors. Many schools require no more than a single math course for future teachers. ``It's a vicious cycle,'' Fortmann said. ``People don't learn math very well in school, they avoid math in college, and the cycle continues. What we're hoping to do here is break the cycle.'' ***

MOVED: Veteran Edison High School teachers, from left, Ta Shina Nelloms, Rebecca Calvert, Shawn DeNight, Terry Lewis, Meghan Hauptli and Kathy Rosenthal Humphrey have been involuntarily transferred to other schools. JOSHUA PREZANT/FOR THE HERALD

3 F's, they're out: Edison sees teacher shake-up*** While the district does not have access to the standardized test scores of individual teachers' students, it can review results by subject and grade, she said. Since reading scores fell at Edison -- only 3 percent of freshmen and 4 percent of seniors were classified at least proficient in 2003 -- they decided to shake up the English department.***

[Captainpaintball]

I was just talking about this today...do the teecherz of today compare to yesterday's teachers? In my recent college experience--and among some non-college friends--I know about 10 people who were education majors or who curently teach. Stack them up against Mrs. Storm (My 3rd Grade teacher at Johnson Elementary School) and they pale by comparison.

They are too young, too immature, and can't write very well. One is a bipolar floozie, one is a drug-abusing man-child affected by a messy divorce, and 2 others (football jocks) took education because it was easy. (they have the combined brainpower of one rhesus monkey) If you were to read their InstantMessages and emails, you'd think they are functionally illiterate. How are they going to teach the importance of penmanship, history, math, or science if they don't understand the subjects?

Today, school is about indoctrination, not education. Diversity and tolerance and dependency trump the "3 Rs"

[Chris Talk]

Yeah, you can't teach what you don't know.

To get to be a public school teacher you first have to prove you know nothing about the subject matter, just be politically correct and affirmative actionally correct.

They are also vastly overpaid, for such dummies.