About 13,000 overseas-trained teachers worked in the U.S. on H-1B and J-1 visas in 2012, down from a peak of nearly 20,000 in 2009, according to a report from Education International, a federation of worldwide teachers unions. While the Trump Administration considers limiting the H-1B program, educators make up a small percentage of workers coming […]
Longtime Superintendent Bill Harrison started recruiting teachers from abroad in 1997 in the face of a shortage in North Carolina. “We thought international teachers would not only fill a slot but add a cultural component” Harrison says. The then-superintendent of Cumberland County Schools contracted with a company called Visiting International Faculty. Twenty years later, Harrison […]
Lunch shaming is the sort of term that never existed until this past spring, when it was seemingly everywhere. It refers to cafeteria policies advocates say punish students who are unable to pay for their meal, such as by taking the lunch away, or having them stand in a separate line from their peers for […]
When Polk County Public Schools started its wellness program back in the late 1980s, the district hoped to get employees moving with weekend fun runs and weight-loss challenges. “Everybody thought it was fluff” says Debbie Zimmerman, who today manages the wellness program for the 96,000-student school district in Central Florida. “How are you going to […]
Ken Montgomery knows what his school looks like to outsiders. “We have people who come in and say, ‘Oh, we could never do that,'” says Montgomery, executive director of Design Tech High School, or d.tech for short. But he says looks can be deceiving. The charter school, which opened in 2014 and is authorized by […]
It’s no surprise that students suffer when their teacher is absent. Substitutes often lack familiarity with the curriculum and class dynamics. What is surprising to learn is how often it happens. Twenty-seven percent of teachers missed 10 or more school days in the 2013-14 year for reasons unrelated to school activities, according to the U.S. […]
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