Randi Weingarten of the American Federation of Teachers said the plan appears to place all the responsibility on teachers, but gives them "zero percent authority."

VOA: special.2010.03.18

Ninety percent of teachers also say they are required to teach handwriting.

VOA: special.2009.10.29

Kevin Courtney is deputy general secretary of Britain's National Union of Teachers.

VOA: special.2011.04.21

So is it still being taught? "If the results of a survey we had published this year are accurate, it is being taught by about ninety percent of teachers in grades one to three."

VOA: special.2009.10.29

So the critical issue will be training of teachers, the numbers of teachers."

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

George Wesonga is the national chairman of the Kenya National Union of Teachers.

VOA: standard.2010.03.04

"The biggest area of progress is giving Afghans the ability to actually change their own future, through education, through training of teachers, through economic opportunities such as the rehabilitation of the Dahla Dam, restoring agriculture."

VOA: standard.2010.05.26

The National Council on Teacher Quality is a research group that works to increase the number of effective teachers.

VOA: special.2011.08.11

But it also depends on the interest and training of the teachers, and the goals and budgets of the schools.

VOA: special.2009.12.17

The National Education Association, the country's largest teachers union, gives a history of the celebration on its Web site.

VOA: special.2010.04.30

About half of those laid off were teachers, says John Deasy,the head of the Los Angeles Unified School District.

VOA: special.2011.05.05

Four teachers and the first class of eighty young women lived and studied in the building when the school opened.

VOA: special.2010.06.27

The Language Teaching Program,for example, brings teachers of English as a foreign language to work at American colleges and universities.

VOA: special.2009.02.12

And what about teachers who find these new kinds of mistakes in spelling and grammar in their students' work.

VOA: special.2010.01.28

Others say the change will be too costly, requiring new textbooks and different kinds of training for teachers.

VOA: special.2010.03.25

It was a good chance for our next generation of reporters here at VOA to ask other kids about their favorite teachers.

VOA: special.2010.04.30

A few years ago, the National Education Association asked teachers what they would most like to receive in appreciation of their efforts.

VOA: special.2010.04.30

"Even with high school teachers, we find that less than fifty percent of assignments are done via word processing or with word processing.

VOA: special.2009.10.29

Teachers can use online services that compare papers to thousands of others to search for copied work.

VOA: special.2009.04.16

Sixty percent of the teachers at the Mariposa-Nabi primary school in Los Angeles have received layoff notices.

VOA: special.2011.05.05

There are millions of American Muslims. But the imam says most of the teachers of Islam in America received their training in other countries.

VOA: special.2010.08.05

University of Nebraska psychologist Susan Swearer says communication between students and teachers can also reduce bullying.

VOA: special.2010.05.06