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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 former middle school teacher in Massachusetts pleaded not guilty on Friday to charges that she repeatedly raped a student nearly a decade ago. Caitlin Harding, 37, of Wellesley, was arraigned by videoconference on multiple charges of child rape and indecent assault and battery on a child, according to Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan’s office. Harding assaulted the victim multiple…

A middle school teacher in Duxbury, Massachusetts, has been fired amid accusations of sexually assaulting a student 15 years ago. John Blake, a longtime gym teacher and hockey coach at Duxbury Middle School, was placed on leave in the fall. Police are now investigating more than a dozen anonymous tips related to the case, according to The Boston Globe. A...

A middle school teacher in Duxbury, Massachusetts, has been fired amid accusations of sexually assaulting a student 15 years ago.

Teachers, school staff and child care providers should receive at least one dose of the coronavirus vaccine by the end of March, according to the Biden administration.

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.

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

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

The beginning of the school year amid the coronavirus pandemic did not lead to the surge of teacher retirements some had feared. That’s according to figures the NBC10 Investigators obtained from the Massachusetts Teachers’ Retirement System. Those stats show the roughly 2,600 retirement applications were actually a little below the average of 2,800 retirements over the previous five years. In…

Some school officials had expressed concern that the pandemic would lead to a surge in teacher retirements, but figures show fewer retirement applications have been submitted than usual.

The coronavirus pandemic has many teachers reinventing what education looks like. Many teachers have created “Virtual classrooms” for their students. But one texas teachers story has gone viral after a photo of her virtual classroom struck a nerve and sparked a debate on diversity and inclusion in the classroom nationwide. Colton Bradford has the story.

That’s according to Ned Parsons, the Head of School at The Rivers School in Weston. So just how different will the start of the school year be? A fascinating and thoughtful conversation on how independent schools are gearing up for a very different fall.

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.

When Dese’Rae Stage interviews survivors of suicide attempts for a website she created, she asks herself a question news reporters may not always consider: How much did it hurt? A survivor herself, she wants to be sure that readers of her website “Live Through This” come away with a real picture of suicide — no romance, no facile explanations and...

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.

When Doña Milagros Matos Marquez and her husband Don Cruz Marquez received the news that Hurricane María was approaching Trujillo Alto in Puerto Rico, they expected some rain and maybe a little bit of wind, like with previous storms. Instead María blew their roof off once the storm made landfall exactly two years ago on Friday. In the months after...

A Virginia teacher was charged with assault after he allegedly grabbed an 11-year-old girl by the ankles and held her upside down. Tenkoran Agyeman, 40, was arrested Tuesday after the incident was reported to have occurred at Rippon Middle School in Woodbridge on Nov. 1 or Nov. 4, Prince William County police said Wednesday. Police say Agyeman grabbed the student…