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Thousands of students and teachers staged a strike across Spain on Thursday to protest government austerity measures and a planned new education reforms.

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Gov. Dennis Daugaard of South Dakota on Friday signed into law a bill that would allow teachers to carry guns in the classroom.

A middle school teacher who was fired after students learned she had appeared in pornography has lost her appeal to return to the classroom, her lawyer said Tuesday.

A former teacher in Florida's Broward County who was accused of soliciting massages from students has lost her license to teach in the state.

A preschool teacher took away the toys in his classroom and was surprised to receive zero complaints.

A teacher is being criticized after having students use markers to draw on classmates who failed reading goals.

Teachers helped students correct mistakes on standardized tests, prepared them with actual test questions or left instructional posters displayed in the classroom during testing, according to school district reports.

The strike by public school teachers in Chicago this month drew national attention to a fierce debate over the future of education and exposed the ruptured relationship between teachers’ unions and Democrats like Mayor Rahm Emanuel.

Teachers in the nation's third-largest city will pore over the details of a contract settlement Tuesday as the clock ticks down to an afternoon meeting in which they are expected to vote on ending a seven-day strike that has kept 350,000 students out of class.