I Hate Homework. I Assign It Anyway.

One teacher explains why students need homework, but only the right kind of homework.

‘I hate their guts – they are all devil’s spawn’

A Brooklyn teacher — fired for posting snarky online comments suggesting her unruly students should drown — can go back to the classroom, a judge says. Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Barbara Jaffe last week overturned an administrative decision to boot Christine Rubino, who taught at PS 203 in Flatlands, for posting “repulsive...

Help! I'm Stuck at a Job I Hate

I'm about three months into my first professional job in the "real world." Coming straight from grad school (which I embarked upon immediately after my undergrad), I can't help but feel incredibly stifled and disappointed by what it's like to sit in one office all week and do the same tasks month after month.

Paralyzed teen on shooter: ‘I hate what he did but I don’t hate him’

Ondelee Perteet’s dreams of becoming the next Michael Phelps were shattered when the high school swimmer was shot and paralyzed at a West Side birthday party.No longer able to play sports or chase girls like a typical teenage boy, Perteet, who is now mostly confined to a wheelchair, feels like a “baby all over again” since he’s been forced to wear diapers and relearn how to move his body in ...

Janice Harper: I Hate Homework: A Mother's Confession

As Socrates said, true knowledge is knowing you know nothing. I really don't know much about Socrates, but I can tell you one thing. He must have been a parent.