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Union Bosses Received 20% Pay Increase Last Year, Making 10 Times the Average Teacher Salary
posted by: Colin | July 14, 2012, 11:34 am   

“Are teachers or anyone in the private sector experiencing those increases in times of financial hardship?"

AAE Executive Director Gary Beckner featured in FoxNews.com article about union boss salaries being nearly 10 times that of the average teacher: Continue Reading...
 
Math Anxiety
posted by: Larisa | July 13, 2012, 12:10 pm   

Recently, someone told me that he had nightmares about triangles.  As a former music teacher, I was really unsure why anyone would ever think about triangles so much that triangles were plaguing this person’s sleep.  It occurred to me, however, that I sometimes think about music so much that my sleep is plagued with worry about perfectly analyzed tone rows.  If I get music anxiety and I’m a music teacher, then it shouldn’t sound so weird that a person with math anxiety could have nightmares about triangles. Continue Reading...
 
Teachers’ Rights under the Law
posted by: Alix | July 13, 2012, 08:22 am   

In the new age of education and labor reform across the country, many teachers have expressed concern over their rights without lengthy union contracts and collective bargaining agreements in place. While teacher unions warn of the "dangers" without these cumbersome union negotiated tools, they fail to mention that the majority of the states in the country have a thriving teacher workforce protected by state and federal laws free from collectively bargained contracts. Continue Reading...
 
Gary Beckner op-ed on 2012 NEA Convention
posted by: Alix | July 12, 2012, 11:34 am   

AAE Executive Director Gary Beckner op-ed on 2010 NEA Convention as featured on the Townhall website: Continue Reading...
 
A Plethora of Resources from Colonial Williamsburg
posted by: Melissa | July 11, 2012, 07:54 am   

I recently was able to meet with Dale Van Eck from Colonial Williamsburg where he talked about the wide variety of resources that Colonial Williamsburg offers to teachers. I knew that I was going to hear about their Electronic Field Trip program and discovered that they have much more than that to offer. Continue Reading...
 
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