Kittitas County Teacher Named State Teacher of the Year

NCTE member Susan Johnson, a high school language arts teacher at Cle Elum-Roslyn High School in Washington, has been named the state's teacher of the year. LeLani Pitts, also an NCTE member, was among the finalists for the honor. The Seattle Times, October 9, 2008

Easing the Toll on Teachers' Checkbooks

Sponsors of "A Day Made Better" estimate that teachers spend $1000 per year out of pocket for school supplies for their classrooms, so 1000 teachers received classroom supply surprises worth just that much.  The Washington Post, October 9, 2008

Putting What Works to Better Use

A new report  by the AACU notes that while colleges know and use many practices to help improve student learning, not enough students are exposed to these practices. Inside
Higher Ed, October 6, 2008

Young, Inexperienced Teachers Recruited to New Orleans

September 10, 2008

Black Teachers in Philadelphia Schools: A Vanishing Breed

Philadelphia Daily News, September 10, 2008

Who Wants to Be a Teacher? A Whole Lot of People, a New Survey Finds

Forty-two percent of college-educated 24- to 60-year-olds would consider teaching as a career, according to a survey out Wednesday from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation in Princeton, N.J.