Joy Harrison, a second grade teacher in Oakland, California, helps a student. Santiago Mejia/San Francisco Chronicle via AP
‘Teaching has always been hard, but it’s...
Native American students at the Carlisle Indian School, circa 1899.
Library of Congress/Corbis Historical Collection/VCG via Getty Images
by Sarah Klotz, College of the Holy Cross
As...
by Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent
In a surprise, President Donald Trump sat down with the Black News Channel to discuss a wide...
Dennis Tynan, right, talks to 9th grader Chyda Iokua during a 9th grade social studies class at Nakakuli High and Intermediate School in Waianae, Hawaii on Friday, Aug. 9, 2013. Hawaii, the only state with a single, statewide district, has long had to turn to the mainland because local teacher education programs can't produce enough graduates to fill classrooms across the islands, especially in remote schools. (AP Photo/Jennifer Sinco Kelleher) by Jennifer Sinco KelleherAssociated Press Writer WAIANAE, Hawaii (AP) — Hawaii's Department of Education is offering bonuses, cultural classes and mentoring in an effort to keep new teachers.
ALEXANDER HERRING The past two years have been a difficult time for Westinghouse 6-12, a restructured Homewood school that spent a brief period as a single-gender academy. The beleaguered school saw four principals in the last four years and several administrative changes since it was reopened as a new school in 2011. Now, the school will see one more change. On June 17, Alexander Herring, a former principal from Erie, took the helm at Westinghouse.
