Indian school children prepare for their Central Board of Secondary Education senior school certificate examinations in New Delhi on March 1, 2012. The progress of education worldwide is often hampered by teacher quality.
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney speaks during an appearance at Arapahoe High School on Feb. 6, 2012 in Centennial, Colorado. Many Republicans argue for more flexibility in hiring and firing teachers.
Originally published on Tue March 13, 2012 9:05 am
Rebekah Brooks, the former head of Rupert Murdoch's newspaper division, was arrested by British police today as part of the burgeoning telephone hacking scandal. NPR's David Folkenflik tells the NPR Newscast desk that Brooks' husband, Charlie, was also arrested, along with four other men.
Originally published on Tue March 13, 2012 1:17 pm
Over the coming days and weeks, I will be doing a series of posts related to the new NPR Ethics Handbook. But let me introduce you to it first, if you haven't seen news articles on the handbook.
I have made a permanent home for a copy of the handbook on the Ombudsman blog, but here it is, too: http://ethics.npr.org/
