A high school teacher in Texas who was arrested at school was reportedly found with recipes for date rape drug cocktails.

An all-girls Catholic high school in Bloomfield, Michigan fired 9-year teaching veteran Barb Webb after Webb announced that she was pregnant. Better ask the Virgin Mary what she thinks about unmarried pregnant women.

Police say nude photographs of a California high school teacher were sent to more than 200 students from his hacked email account.

An elementary school in Florida has agreed to stop giving Mountain Dew to kids before tests.

One particularly daring student found a new loophole around hard test questions. Too bad for her this method stopped working decades ago.

A teacher at Red Bank High School in Tennessee is out of a job for taking a student to an emergency room and paying for the visit.

Meet 12-year-old Paloma Noyola Bueno. She goes to José Urbina López Primary School in Matamoros, Mexico. She's being touted as "the face of Mexico's unleashed potential." Mentioning Steve Jobs in the headline is purposely attention-grabbing — on Wired's part and on mine — but the gist of it is this: Our current idea…

A teacher at Albany High School has been put on leave after igniting a brushfire of outrage in upstate New York with quite possibly the worst persuasive writing assignment ever: she asked students to put themselves into a pair of black leather stormtrooper boots and argue why the Jews are evil as if they were trying…

Agnes Zhelesnik started her teaching career when she was 82 years old. She just turned 99, and CNN reports that over the last 17 years, she's had a "huge impact" on her students' lives. Ms Zhelesnik — affectionately called "Granny" at school, teaches cooking, sewing and costume-making. Her daughter, a 69-year-old …

Stacie Halas was fired from her job as a middle-school science teacher after her students and colleagues discovered that she had a short stint acting in pornos under the name Tiffany Six.

Sometimes it's hard to muster the energy to get outraged about every truly awful thing that happens in this crap rainstorm we call life. But other times, something comes along that's so bad, so egregious, that it renews my faith in my ability to be disgusted by things. Today's outrage-restorer: the curious case of the…

Since Monday, 350,000 Chicago kids who normally would be spending their day in classrooms crudely carving pictures of penises onto wooden desks are free to crudely carve penises on wooden things that are not located inside of a school building — their teachers are on strike. Let's take a terribly disappointing slog…

With news that public school students in Chicago have successfully goaded summer into an encore performance, the New York Times thought it'd be a really opportune time to ask current and prospective shapers of young minds: is being a teacher in the U.S. really worth all the bullshit?

After teaching an all-day open house memoir-writing workshop last Sunday, one of my students came up to me and identified herself as being a reporter from the New York Post. Apparently they are planning to write another story about me. Considering the last article they wrote was entitled "Idiot prosti-teacher didn't…

Just a week after a Chicago teacher made fun of a little girl's hairstyle online, another teacher in New Jersey has gotten in trouble for posting something inappropriate on Facebook, and having a generally horrible attitude about her students.

Teachers these days! From an alleged "vagina dance" sex-ed lesson to classroom sex as "insulin care" to sexist firemen, a run-down of recent classroom dramas.

James O'Keefe, unbowed by the CNN sex boat debacle, has since targeted a special education teacher once hailed for saving her students' lives, concerned about her colleague's use of the n-word. Those teacher's unions are out of control! There's video.