For the first time, teachers would undergo mandatory periodic evaluations, for example, but the detailed results would remain confidential.
It will mean that, for the first time, teachers will be allowed to cover truly innovative, specialist and challenging topics.
For the first time, teachers in New York City will have the power to remove disruptive students from their classrooms for up to four days under regulations that Chancellor Harold O. Levy is to present to the Board of Education today.
It is the first time teachers have been encouraged to refer to the Senkakus as part of Japan, a shift that reflects Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's desire to ditch "masochistic" appraisals of the country's wartime history, promote its territorial claims and instill feelings of patriotism among schoolchildren.
For the first time, teachers do not need a principal's permission to remove a violent or disruptive student from the classroom, and principals and superintendents have been given authority to suspend an insubordinate, disorderly, violent or disruptive student for up to five days without delegation by the local school board.
For the first time, teachers and schools could truly be held accountable for raising minority achievement.
This isn't the first time teachers have taken on the prank, first made popular by Ellen DeGeneres' "Dance Dare" segment on the popular talk show.
According to the Washington Examiner, for the first time, teachers who score an "effective" rating can also be rewarded with higher paychecks.
When we meet the first-time teacher Monica Groves, she is hanging inspiring words on the walls of her classroom and anticipating her sixth-grade pupils.
8 P.M. (CBS) BEYOND THE BLACKBOARD A 24-year-old first-time teacher (Emily VanCamp, left) overcomes fear and prejudice to make a difference in the lives of the children she tutors in the makeshift classroom of a homeless shelter.
