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In November 2019, Michaela Cricchio, 26, booked a one-way flight to South Korea to teach English abroad.

Michaela Cricchio grew up wishing she could travel the world. Two years ago, she made plans to become a digital nomad and now teaches English abroad.

Since March 2020, teachers have been on the front lines of addressing some of the most serious social implications of the coronavirus pandemic.

A retired drama teacher and theater director at a New Jersey middle school is accused of sexual contact with a student while on school grounds several years ago, acting Union County Prosecutor Lyndsay V. Ruotolo and Summit Police Chief Andrew Bartolotti jointly announced Monday. Ronald Wells, 69 and of Summit, is charged with second-degree endangering the welfare of a child,…

Children who have been marooned at home for months by the pandemic are slowly returning to classrooms, but many teachers say they won’t go back until they’ve received the COVID-19 vaccine.

If Jill Biden were to continue her teaching job when her husband takes the Oval Office, it would make her the first first lady with a job outside the White House

French authorities say a suspect shot dead by police after the beheading of a history teacher near Paris was an 18-year-old Chechen refugee unknown to intelligence services who posted a grisly claim of responsibility on social media minutes after the attack

New York City schools are offering remote or blended learning, although a teachers union representative says they are concerned over blended learning plans. Erica Byfield with the latest.

Mayor Bill De Blasio said 74 percent of NYC students were planning to attend school in person, per the results of a city survey, and 85 percent of teachers intend to physically teach in schools. The remaining 26 percent of students and 15 percent of teachers opted for an all-remote model.

It’s never too early to start teaching children to be antiracist, said Brittany Smith, a pre-kindergarten teacher from Atlantic City, New Jersey. Steps as simple as buying books that feature diverse faces is a good start.

A New Jersey math teacher is using puzzles and dad jokes to keep her students and the community entertained and engaged through quarantine.

A veteran special education teacher in Queens allegedly made a 9-year-old girl with autism inappropriately touch him while other students were in the classroom, law enforcement sources say. Marc Santia reports.

A middle school teacher in New Jersey with experience coaching sports at more than a dozen schools was arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a minor. The Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office says John Denuto, 43, was arrested Saturday following an investigation that found he allegedly had sex with a minor. The age of the minor was not disclosed by the...

A New Jersey school district has cleared a teacher of wrongdoing for having students pretend to be slaves as part of a history lesson. A spokesman for Toms River Regional School District said in a statement issued late Thursday that it was not the intention of eighth-grade social studies teacher Lawrence Cuneo to offend his students, the Asbury Park Press…

An eighth grade social studies teacher had students act as if they were picking cotton and lay on a dirty floor while pretending to be slaves

Twelve former students of a man convicted of sexually abusing them when he was their teacher at a San Francisco Bay Area school will receive a combined $10.9 million to settle a lawsuit against the school, an attorney said.

The teachers are accused of making racist comments in a slide show after showing a photo of a gorilla following by a picture of four African American students with the captions “Monkey see” and “Monkey do.” NBC New York’s Greg Cergol reports.

A substitute teacher berated a Utah fifth grader after he said during a pre-Thanksgiving lesson that he was thankful he’s finally going to be adopted by his two dads, the parents said. The boy’s classmates said the teacher told him, “that’s nothing to be thankful for” and lectured the 30 kids in the class about her views on homosexuality. She...

Montclair High School was placed on lockdown Wednesday morning, according to the district superintendent.

A 10-year-old has been charged with fourth-degree sex offense and second-degree assault for an incident at an elementary school, the Charles County Sheriff’s Office confirmed.