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

They agreed with the teachers and with his father that Paul's was a bad case.

VOA: special.2009.04.04

But leaders of the nation's largest teachers unions criticized the administration's "blueprint."

VOA: special.2010.03.18

They were old friends of his. Finally,his teachers went to Paul's father.

VOA: special.2009.04.04

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

VOA: special.2011.04.21

That's what teachers and educators want, is to get kids communicating."

VOA: special.2010.01.28

Finally, Paul's teachers complained again to his father.

VOA: special.2009.04.11

Parents are a child's first teachers.

VOA: special.2010.05.13

"And then when you look at how it's taught, you have some teachers who are teaching handwriting by providing instruction for ten,fifteen minutes a day, and then other teachers who basically teach it for sixty to seventy minutes a day which really for handwriting is pretty much death."

VOA: special.2009.10.29

"We need new gloves,books. We need teachers." Thompson's staff of 13 is now down to just three - all working for free.

VOA: standard.2010.04.29

(Student Kim Hee-joo, 15) She says,on her school's homepage she writes thank you messages to friends,family and teachers.

VOA: standard.2010.03.30

The program's coordinator, Johnette Roberts, says teachers are evaluated before and after taking the summer professional development classes.

VOA: standard.2010.08.10

If it's helping the kids write more or communicate more in their first draft,that's great, that's what teachers and educators want, to get students communicating,".

VOA: standard.2010.01.16

Teachers in the village have been mobilizing children in the fight against the desert's onslaught.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

She says she had trouble with seventh grade algebra. "I think the teachers are good, but they can't go at a pace that's perfect for everyone."

VOA: standard.2010.03.26

Senegar-Mitchell joined the Biotechnology Institute's Teacher-Leader Program, an annual workshop that provides teachers with the skills, strategies and knowledge to raise awareness of biotechnology in their home communities.

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

Hanle says the focus is on offering special programs for teachers at middle schools and high schools because that's when the students start to lose interest in studying science.

VOA: standard.2009.11.25