The largest union in the country has locked its own workers out of their jobs after they went on strike for three days, escalating an ugly contract dispute that has already involved the White House. Staffers at the National Education Association said they were told not to report to work at the union’s headquarters in … Read more
WASHINGTON D.C. (NewsNation) — Teachers visited Capitol Hill Thursday to testify at a committee hearing focused on teacher shortages and other challenges plaguing K-12 education. One of the attending teachers, Germayel Keyes, started his career in special education 18 years ago, he was making $16,000 per year in starting pay as a paraprofessional, or classroom … Read more
(NewsNation) — An Arizona teacher is making national headlines after he left his teaching career of more than a decade because he couldn’t keep up with his students’ cell phone use. Mitchell Rutherford taught biology at a high school in Tucson. He told NewsNation that he noticed a shift in his students’ attention span getting worse … Read more
Microsoft is partnering with tutoring organization Khan Academy to provide a generative AI assistant to all teachers in the U.S. for free. Khanmigo for Teachers, which helps teachers prepare lessons for class, is free to all educators in the U.S. as of Tuesday, with the financial support of Microsoft. The program can help create lessons, … Read more
Lucy Alexandra Spencer spent 16 weeks abroad last year in Oman, France, Switzerland and Portugal. Unlike with most people, traveling is how she earns â rather than spends â money. The trips are paid for by Spencer’s employers â they’re wealthy Europeans and Americans who hire her to travel with their families for weeks and, … Read more
