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Story by Janie Magruder Photos by Darryl Webb GCU News Bureau A new report by GCU suggests that a lack of support of Arizona’s new and veteran teachers is contributing to an alarming shortage of high-quality educators in the state. A new policy...

From "Go Public" Ever since the emergence of talking pictures, schools have been a major subject of both Hollywood movies and documentary films. One consistent theme of Hollywood portrayals of schools – from Blackboard Jungle (1955), Up the...

A new documentary is a welcome antidote to the bleak and misleading message of "Waiting for Superman" and "Won't Back Down." Copyright, Truthout.org. Reprinted with permission. In the battle over public education, the corporate foundations and...

About 8% of teachers leave the field each year, due to long workdays, low salaries and challenging conditions. Some predict a gap of 112,000 teachers by 2018. Some states are lowering the bar for teaching jobs. But there are plenty of good ideas about...