September 18, 2025 - Meet Allison Saiki, who teaches students how to manage money, pay rent and open retirement accounts, with a class currency she calls "Saiki Cents." Demands from teachers’ unions ...

You will never hear a teacher say, “I made a killing this year.” Teachers don’t teach to get rich. In the Jan. 11 column,“City Life: Teachers deserve all our respect,” the second sentence in the ...

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’ ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s that time of year again when our public school children are getting ready to head back to school and our public school teachers are busy preparing their classrooms to welcome students. But this ...

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 ...

Compared with when they were students, Americans today believe that there’s a lot less respect in the hallways of the nation’s schools. A new Harris Poll finds that fewer adults believe teachers ...

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 ...

Any possibility has to begin with an examination of the status of teachers. In Learning To Bow: Inside the Heart of Japan, Bruce S. Feiler makes this clear. Teachers have long been revered in Japan.