The action plan involves public and private groups, mayors and governors, parents and teachers, business owners and health care providers.

VOA: special.2010.06.07

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

Writing teachers say students in many countries have learned to write beautiful descriptions about something without ever stating the main idea.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

Because here the teachers are more friends, and in Germany they are more like parents and strict and stuff like that."

VOA: special.2009.11.05

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

States that want to take part in the Race to the Top cannot have rules that bar performance-based pay for teachers.

VOA: special.2009.07.30

His family was poor. His early education came not from school teachers, but from whatever books he could find.

VOA: special.2009.04.09

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

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

"I can say that,anecdotally, virtually all the teachers noticed immediately much more alertness in class, definitely more positive mood.

VOA: special.2010.10.07

The institute has trained more than fifteen thousand teachers and has provided health education for half a million women.

VOA: special.2009.06.15

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

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

VOA: special.2011.08.11