WASHINGTON — Teachers should have salaries starting at $60,000 and the opportunity to make up to $150,000 based on performance, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan told educators at the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards conference on Friday. “The field of teaching is poised for change,” Duncan said. “Many bright and committed young people [...]
NEW YORK — The 21-year-old daughter of actor Al Pacino has been arrested on a drunken driving charge in New York City. Police say Julie Pacino was stopped at a traffic checkpoint on West Houston (HOW’-ston) Street in Manhattan at 1:05 a.m. Saturday. Police say Pacino’s blood-alcohol level was over the legal limit for driving. [...]
Revised editions of two history textbooks in Virginia that were found to be erroneous last fall will be taken to universities across Virginia for public review. Previous state-approved editions of “Our Virginia: Past and Present” and “Our America to 1865,” both Five Ponds Press textbooks, were removed from Virginia elementary schools early this year after [...]
Beginning Monday, a Denver district court will hear arguments on Lobato v. State of Colorado, a lawsuit that raises the question: is the state’s system of public education funding constitutional? A group of parents from around the state and financially weak school districts filed the lawsuit in 2005 through Children’s Voices, a non-profit law firm of [...]
Americans are becoming increasingly skeptical of the U.S. public school system, revealing near-record low confidence in schools. According results released this week from a Gallup poll conducted last month, 34 percent of those surveyed said they have a “great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in public schools. The number is unchanged from last year [...]
This story was reported in collaboration with our partners at Patch.com When Anna Marie Osso tells people about Our Lady of Victory Academy in New York’s Westchester County, she starts by recounting all the time and effort that went into the decision to send her daughter there. The process began in 2008, when her daughter, [...]
FRANKFORT, Ky. — Radio talk show host Glenn Beck criticized the notion of summer political camps for kids like the one in Norway where 68 people were killed last week, even though he has promoted similar camps in the U.S. where children are taught tea party principles. Beck’s criticism earlier this week was directed at [...]
Divorce, and all the emotional turmoil that accompanies it, isn’t usually the basis for Hollywood comedies. But then, Steve Carell’s latest movie “Crazy, Stupid, Love” isn’t your typical Hollywood comedy. In the film, which opened in theatres nationwide Friday, Carell plays Cal, a lovably schlubby fortysomething man with two kids whose long-time wife Emily (Julianne [...]
NEW YORK — The 21-year-old daughter of actor Al Pacino has been arrested on a drunken driving charge in New York City. Police say Julie Pacino was stopped at a traffic checkpoint on West Houston (HOW’-ston) Street in Manhattan at 1:05 a.m. Saturday. Police say Pacino’s blood-alcohol level was over the legal limit for driving. [...]
Maybe there’s a reason why Dr. House is always so grumpy: he’s got the blues. Hugh Laurie, the Golden Globe-winning TV doctor, has a number of secret lives: back in Britain, he’s known as one of the country’s greatest comedians of the past twenty years, partners with funnyman Stephen Fry on a number of legendary [...]
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