<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Teachers</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/education/teachers?nav=rss_education/teachers</link><description>Teachers</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[For Elite U.S. Teachers, Cachet and More Cash]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6208-2005Feb7.html?nav=rss_education/teachers</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6208-2005Feb7.html?nav=rss_education/teachers</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:07:42 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[With more than 30 states and the District giving bonuses to those who succeed, national certification is the most powerful merit pay system in public education, educators say.]]></description><author> Jay Mathews</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Arundel Teacher Bonus Urged at Lagging Schools]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9613-2003Dec17.html?nav=rss_education/teachers</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9613-2003Dec17.html?nav=rss_education/teachers</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:07:42 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[County schools have proposed bonuses to bring teachers into struggling schools and to reward them when their schools meet requirements of a new federal law.]]></description><author> Vikki Ortiz</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Students Fill Grade Book On Teachers at Web Site]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49058-2003Oct5.html?nav=rss_education/teachers</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49058-2003Oct5.html?nav=rss_education/teachers</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:07:42 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Web site allows students -- or anyone else with Internet access -- to post comments about middle and high school teachers for all to see.]]></description><author> Rosalind S. Helderman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[D.C. Teacher Lifts History Out of the Dustbin]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49362-2003Sep22.html?nav=rss_education/teachers</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49362-2003Sep22.html?nav=rss_education/teachers</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:07:42 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[<em> First in a series of occasional articles highlighting the philosophies and techniques of innovative teachers.</em>]]></description><author> Valerie Strauss</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[2 Uncommon Teachers Honored]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42868-2003Mar17.html?nav=rss_education/teachers</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42868-2003Mar17.html?nav=rss_education/teachers</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:07:42 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Inge Pisano plays rap music, stages "The Bachelor" and allows paper airplanes to be flown in class. Anything goes in the Oakton High School teacher's classroom -- as long as it's in French or German.]]></description><author> S. Mitra Kalita</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teacher Works in the Key of Life]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10575-2003Feb14.html?nav=rss_education/teachers</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10575-2003Feb14.html?nav=rss_education/teachers</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:07:42 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ In the late 1950s, Kathryn Burden went to the Newport News, Va., schools system and demanded an education for her special-needs daughter.]]></description><author> Rosalind S. Helderman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA['97 Forgery at Union Unreported, Audit Finds]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8774-2003Jan17.html?nav=rss_education/teachers</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8774-2003Jan17.html?nav=rss_education/teachers</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:07:42 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The interim head of the Washington Teachers' Union, Esther S. Hankerson, knew in 1997 that a check had been forged in her name  payable to then-President Barbara A. Bullock  and confronted Bullock but did not report it to anybody else, an audit showed.]]></description><author> Valerie Strauss</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teachers' Auditors Focus on Area Bank]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8761-2003Jan17.html?nav=rss_education/teachers</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8761-2003Jan17.html?nav=rss_education/teachers</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:07:42 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[For years, the chauffeur for the Washington Teachers' Union routinely cashed checks made out to him for amounts just under $10,000 at Independence Federal Savings Bank.]]></description><author> Justin Blum</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Audit Says Union Lost $5 Million To Theft]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4169-2003Jan16.html?nav=rss_education/teachers</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4169-2003Jan16.html?nav=rss_education/teachers</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:07:42 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[An audit released last night alleges that more than $5 million was looted from the Washington Teachers' Union over the last seven years by union officials and others, an amount far greater than previous estimates of improper spending.]]></description><author> Justin Blum</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teachers' Treasures]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9744-2002Dec18.html?nav=rss_education/teachers</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9744-2002Dec18.html?nav=rss_education/teachers</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:07:42 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Oh, the anticipation -- and agony -- of baking, sewing, painting or buying a Christmas present for your teacher. <em>By Laura Sessions Stepp</em>]]></description><author> Laura Sessions Stepp</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyday Problems Stress Teachers Most]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61601-2002Oct21.html?nav=rss_education/teachers</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61601-2002Oct21.html?nav=rss_education/teachers</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:07:42 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Stress levels of teachers in the Washington region have jumped to new heights since the sniper attacks began nearly three weeks ago. Yet teachers are credited with keeping their classrooms from boiling over.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Top Teachers Rare in Poor Schools]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59173-2002Sep9.html?nav=rss_education/teachers</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59173-2002Sep9.html?nav=rss_education/teachers</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:07:42 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A study by Richard M. Ingersoll of the University of Pennsylvania shows that the problem is not so much that low-income schools cannot attract enough experienced teachers, but that they lose the ones they have.]]></description><author> Jay Mathews</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[More Md. Teachers Not Fully Certified]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4380-2002Aug27.html?nav=rss_education/teachers</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4380-2002Aug27.html?nav=rss_education/teachers</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:07:42 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Teachers without full certification were hired in increasing numbers by Maryland's 24 public school districts this year  a trend running counter to a new federal law.]]></description><author> Theola Labb&#233;</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teacher Training: Too Much or Not Enough?]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41591-2002Jul8.html?nav=rss_education/teachers</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41591-2002Jul8.html?nav=rss_education/teachers</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:07:42 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Educators are confused over apparent mixed messages from the Bush administration that first call for guaranteeing "highly qualified" teachers but then argue that too much time is spent on classroom methodology.]]></description><author> Jay Mathews</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Tough Time at the Head of the Classes]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1747-2002Jun17.html?nav=rss_education/teachers</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1747-2002Jun17.html?nav=rss_education/teachers</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:07:42 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Today's principals face what seems like a 24-hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week job, one that's big enough for a committee. No wonder burnout leads to so much turnover.]]></description><author> Emily Wax</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Report Urges Stricter Tests for Teachers]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27547-2002Jun10.html?nav=rss_education/teachers</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27547-2002Jun10.html?nav=rss_education/teachers</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:07:42 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[States should require prospective teachers to pass rigorous exams in the subjects they plan to teach, according to a new federal report.]]></description><author> Michael A. Fletcher</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Post Honors Outstanding Area Teachers]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38147-2002Apr24.html?nav=rss_education/teachers</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38147-2002Apr24.html?nav=rss_education/teachers</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:07:42 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Grit and determination are often honored, but some of those who received The Washington Post's Agnes Meyer Outstanding Teacher Awards last night appeared to exemplify an extra measure of both.]]></description><author> Martin Weil</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[District's Teachers Vote on 19% Raise]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22438-2002Mar26.html?nav=rss_education/teachers</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22438-2002Mar26.html?nav=rss_education/teachers</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:07:42 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The District school board yesterday approved a contract with teachers that calls for pay increases totaling 19 percent over three years, but this spending would have to come out of the capital budget.]]></description><author> Justin Blum</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[More Teachers, Higher Pay]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42703-2002Feb7.html?nav=rss_education/teachers</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42703-2002Feb7.html?nav=rss_education/teachers</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:07:42 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Arlington County teachers would get pay increases and arriving immigrant high school students would get additional teachers, counseling and summer classes under a proposed $300 million budget announced yesterday by School Superintendent Robert G. Smith.]]></description><author> Emily Wax</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Teacher's Enduring Gift]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61056-2001Nov20.html?nav=rss_education/teachers</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61056-2001Nov20.html?nav=rss_education/teachers</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:07:42 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[They were afraid to drive across the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, but the vertigo and the panoramic view were what their teacher wanted them to experience.]]></description><author> Darragh Johnson</author></item></channel></rss>