What teacher does not want a more respectful classroom? Days are packed full with new content to teach, tests to give and grade, and unexpected demands on teachers’ time and attention. Students’ ...

Demands from teachers’ unions for extra bonus “contract raises” are coming with increasing frequency. The Los Angeles Unified union’s recent announcement seeking a 20% raise (on top of their normal ...

Recently, I wrote a commentary about how our public education system in West Virginia is failing to achieve the state constitutional requirement of providing a “thorough and efficient” system of free ...

I agree with the writer of the letter “Fixing the teacher shortage” (Sept. 22, TribLIVE) about freezing salary increases for “older” teachers. Instead, just reimburse these incredible profesionals for ...

Re: “Get serious about ensuring teacher quality” [Feb. 25, Opinion]: The 1940s radio-show-turned-TV-sitcom “Our Miss Brooks,” starring Eve Arden as English teacher Connie Brooks, raked in the laughs ...

THERE IS NO TRY: Joan Hoffman, a teacher at A.C. Reynolds High School, is tired of waiting for her supplemental pay to keep up with the rising cost of living in Buncombe County. Photo by Greg Parlier ...