First time I met her was a Monday morning, 9 a.m. freshman Intro to Advertising. After an hour of no teacher and 65 students chirping about walking out, Lynette walks in, slams some books on a desk and yells, Hey! Anybody got a cigarette?! It was classic. Kthfrontcovsmall111008 copy 1 We all hit the...

  We're sorry for possibly giving Scanner Brian a coronary with that headline; if teacher-student sex were to end, what ever would he have to write about? And really, what we're talking about here is only one small step toward putting an end to teacher sex, but one giant step for the st...

Good Morning guys! Guess what? Hindi pa ako natutulog. I’ve been surfin’ the net since 1pm of March 10 (yesterday) and until now gising pa rin ako.. ‘eto nakareceive ako ng text from Karen, pinapagawa ako ng testi kaya nagtesti naman ang lola mo. I’m sure that she is gonna re...

    Garden Valley, California - Rose's Garden Cafe may need more than its signature Scottish shortbread to survive budget cutbacks to the region's largest employer: the local school district.     Employee layoffs, stalled school construction projects and fisca...

by Elio The southern end of the volcanic Kol- beinsey Ridge with its isolated seamounts perched on the Mid-Atlantic ridge north of Iceland. Source. We don't know about you, but we've become pretty blase about the stream of papers, each with the customary two dozen or more authors, reporting the comp...

  It's not even ten a.m. on the first day of this workweek, and there are already two bizarre teacher sex scandals to report. The first featured a kid, having engaged in a sexual relationship with his teacher since October, caught by the principal... (literally) with his pants down.  N...

  Rush Limbaugh is at it again: he's predicting Ted Kennedy is going to die soon. This cat amuses the bejesus out of our stupid asses. M.I.A. denied naming her baby Ickitt... but hasn't convinced us of this yet because she won't say what she did name the lil' thang.  Questi...

During Martin Bean’s keynote presentation at the NAACE 2009 Strategic Conference one of the new technologies that was demonstrated was Deep Zoom. I’ve mentioned Deep Zoom before in relation to my recent visit to the UK Microsoft Innovative Teachers Forum in Reading. The Hard Rock Café collectio...

My grandmother recently passed away pretty suddenly. I really want to get a tattoo for her. She was a high school english teacher for over thirty years, and it was a huge part of her life, and mine. After she had a stroke she had a hard time reading and writing and she was very depressed over it. Si...

I’m trying something different this year. I’m not assigning novels and telling everyone which pages to read, having class discussions about the themes, providing background knowledge, making vocabulary lists, or asking “comprehension” questions that I mark for a grade. This y...