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A former Ohio high school teacher has been sentenced to four years in prison for having sex with teenage boys at her home. Thirty-three-year-old Stacy Schuler was convicted on Thursday of sexual battery.

A teacher says students are trying to disrupt class with blessings after sneezings, but his prohibition on the practice is upsetting some parents.

The Philadelphia-area high school teacher who was suspended for blogging about some of her "lazy" and "frightfully dim" students will get her ...

Teachers spent nights huddled in a back room, erasing wrong answers on students' test sheets and filling in the correct bubbles. At another school, struggling students were seated next to higher-performing classmates so they could copy answers....

A first-grade teacher at a Silver Spring elementary school was charged with several counts of assault Tuesday, when authorities accused her of choking and, in some cases, punching half the 16 students in her class.

Thanks to a long Labor Day weekend, most students heading back to school today will enjoy a four-day school week. But for some students around the country, every week this school year will be only four days. Facing massive budget cuts and teacher layoffs, some school districts have opted to cut operational costs by closing schools one day per week.

A new study found students with better teachers learned more in kindergarten — and earned more as young adults.

A Londonderry high school teacher repeatedly offered to perform a sex act on one of her students and also e-mailed nude photographs of herself that ended up circulating among students at the New Hampshire school, according to police.

A Northern California elementary school teacher sent her students home for the summer with a video of class memories, only the DVD included six seconds of her having sex on a couch.

On May 4, 2007, Kara Kopetsky, a 17-year-old high school junior in Belton, Missouri, was not having a good day.