Articles Teacher Layoffs Go Hollywood: Zooey Deschanel's 'New Girl' Character to Be Pink Slipped Liz DwyerJul 28, 2012
Articles Lights, Camera, Action: Los Angeles Parents Film PSA About the School Funding Crisis Liz DwyerJun 09, 2011
Articles Two Angry Teachers Protest California's Standardized Testing with Another Music Video It's standardized testing time in California, which means the anonymous pink-slipped duo Two Angry Teachers and a Microphone are back with...Liz Dwyer20 May, 2011
Articles Hundreds of Teachers Agree: Budget Cuts Are Gutting American Education At a town hall event, teachers were honest about how budget cuts make it harder to close the achievement gap.Liz Dwyer19 May, 2011
Articles Outsourcing Education: Does It Matter If Someone in India Corrected Your College Paper? That paper you think was corrected by a professor actually might have been marked up by someone halfway across the globe.Liz Dwyer18 May, 2011
Articles Texas to Layoff 100,000 Teachers While Giving Millions to Formula One Racing The Lone Star State plans to fund a race track instead of schools. Really.Liz Dwyer14 May, 2011
Articles Two Former Teachers Defend Music Education on YouTube In their latest video, the duo Two Teachers and a Microphone make the case for music programs, which are getting cut across America.Liz Dwyer05 May, 2011
Articles Five Categories Jeopardy! Should Avoid During Its "Teachers Tournament" The popular quiz show wants to honor teachers. To help them out, here are five sensitive subjects the question writers should avoid.Liz Dwyer04 May, 2011
Articles Back With Another Rap: Two Angry LAUSD Teachers Want You to Protest California Education Cuts The two teachers behind the "Two Teachers and a Microphone" video are back.Liz Dwyer26 Mar, 2011
Articles Extra Credit: Can Someone Bring Chile's Star Wars School to the States? Welcome to the first-ever edition of Extra Credit, a daily roundup of noteworthy education stories.Liz Dwyer20 Mar, 2011
Articles People Are Awesome: Fifth Grader Donates $300 Life Savings to Stop Teacher Layoffs Elementary school student Jocelyn Lam emptied her piggy bank to save pink slipped teachers. Now she's inspired an entire community to do the same.Liz Dwyer19 Mar, 2011
Articles Two Angry Teachers Rap About Being Fired By LAUSD Two teachers laid off by LAUSD take to YouTube, creating a rap song illustrating how Angelenos can help thousands of teachers get their jobs back.Alissa Walker18 Mar, 2011
Articles Bill Gates' Class Size Ideas Fuel Education Reform Debate Are Bigger Class Sizes The Answer? Leonie Haimson and Our Publisher Discuss on The Dylan Ratigan Show With budget cuts come larger class sizes. Will more kids in a room keep teachers from being effective? The debate headed to the Dylan Ratigan Show.Liz Dwyer10 Mar, 2011
Articles Arne Duncan's Against Seniority-Based Teacher Layoffs Secretary of Education Arne Duncan wants to change the policy of firing the teachers who've been in the job for the shortest time first.Liz Dwyer06 Mar, 2011
Articles Court Decision Ends "Last Hired, First Fired" in Los Angeles Schools The ACLU argued that the policy of firing the newest teachers first unfairly targets students in disadvantaged communities—and won.Liz Dwyer26 Jan, 2011
Articles California Declares Education Budget "Financial Emergency" With more budget cuts on the horizon, schools in the Golden State are set for fiscal annihilation.Liz Dwyer10 Jan, 2011