I have been teaching English in a public high school for 13 years. We stopped getting our step raise as of 5 years ago and my wife and our four children have been living off of that salary, watching the cost of living go up by the day in this country. I read a storyContinue reading “Teacher Pay Raises: Breaking the Stigma”
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Common Core Standards: Requiring Students to Think
As an English teacher in Oklahoma, I have been under the failed No Child Left Behind rules for some time now. Recently, NCLB was “forgiven” for my state by the president. I guess this means that we are not to be held accountable by the federal government if a student is truly “left behind.” Continue reading “Common Core Standards: Requiring Students to Think”