Until now, many Americans have largely tuned out Europe’s debt crisis. Its causes are complicated, it’s happening somewhere else, and we’ve got enough of our own economic problems to worry about, thank you very much. But Americans may not be able to disregard the crisis much longer. Europe’s leaders met in Washington over the weekend,
Continue reading …The Lookout sat down with the president of the nation’s largest teacher’s union, Dennis Van Roekel, Monday to ask him about a hot topic in education reform right now–teacher compensation. Van Roekel is attending NBC’s “Education Nation” summit in New York, which has focused on the need to boost teachers’ salaries after hosting the premiere
Continue reading …The Lookout sat down with the president of the nation’s largest teacher’s union, Dennis Van Roekel, Monday to ask him about a hot topic in education reform right now–teacher compensation. Van Roekel is attending NBC’s “Education Nation” summit in New York, which has focused on the need to boost teachers’ salaries after hosting the premiere
Continue reading …The National Park Service released three new videos showing the inside of the Washington National Monument during the 5.8 East Coast quake that struck last month. In the video, you can see a park ranger glance up in horror as debris begins falling from the ceiling of the monument onto the 500-foot high observation deck. The
Continue reading …The National Park Service released three new videos showing the inside of the Washington National Monument during the 5.8 East Coast quake that struck last month. In the video, you can see a park ranger glance up in horror as debris begins falling from the ceiling of the monument onto the 500-foot high observation deck. The
Continue reading …Only three months after his release from a 26-year prison sentence, Randall Lee Church burned an empty house down so that he could return to jail, The San Antonio Express News reports. Church, who was locked up in 1983 for murder, says he didn’t know how to use a computer or a cell phone, and
Continue reading …Only three months after his release from a 26-year prison sentence, Randall Lee Church burned an empty house down so that he could return to jail, The San Antonio Express News reports. Church, who was locked up in 1983 for murder, says he didn’t know how to use a computer or a cell phone, and
Continue reading …The new documentary “American Teacher” argues that the country’s 3.2 million teachers are under-compensated and under-valued. The film profiles four enthusiastic public school teachers who are struggling to survive on their salaries. One teacher reluctantly leaves his job for a better salary as a real estate agent. (A former student of his tells the camera
Continue reading …A former top White House economics adviser is hitting back against criticism of her one-time boss’s jobs plan. In a New York Times op-ed article, Christina Romer, who chaired the White House Council of Economic Advisers from 2009 to 2010, takes on four distinct arguments against the plan, which is currently being considered by Congress.
Continue reading …Eight social scientists say single-sex classrooms encourage gender stereotypes and do not improve student performance in a new report in Science Magazine. The report’s lead author, Diane Halpern, told the New York Times that single-sex schooling increases aggression in boys and gender stereotyping among both sexes. She also charged that one of the main arguments for
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