teaching

More than half of Hawaii's public school teachers leave within five years of being hired, causing the state to search for new ways to retain their teachers.

PolarTrec, funded by the National Science Foundation, has sent about 50 mostly middle and high school teachers from the United States on research trips in the Arctic and Antarctic.

The prospect of hosting a student teacher has middle school language arts teacher Sarah Henchey contemplating her own practice.

A Georgia district is now offering Chinese classes at the elementary and middle school levels, thanks to a teleconferencing Chinese program in partnership with the Confucius Institute and Kennesaw State University.

To try to improve student achievement at her low-performing school, a Louisiana principal was willing to try "anything and everything" for the new school year, including separating boys and girls into separate classrooms.

Rhode Island teachers who were fired and ultimately rehired have returned to their classrooms amid hopes that changes they agreed to will help improve student performance at their persistently troubled high school.