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Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS) is a public pension plan of the State of Texas. Established in 1937, TRS provides retirement and related benefits for those employed by the public schools, colleges, and universities supported by the State of Texas and manages a $210 billion trust fund established to finance member benefits.
Teachers Pay Teachers (sometimes abbreviated as TPT) is an online marketplace and an American educational website for buying and selling educator resources. It focuses on a PreK-12 audience. Founded in 2006 by Paul Edelman, a former New York City public school teacher, Teachers Pay Teachers has over 2.6 million active users with sales exceeding $60 million. [1] In 2012, Teachers Pay Teachers ...
The Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA), also known as the "Digital Telephony Act," is a United States wiretapping law passed in 1994, during the presidency of Bill Clinton (Pub. L. No. 103-414, 108 Stat. 4279, codified at 47 USC 1001–1010). CALEA's purpose is to enhance the ability of law enforcement agencies to conduct lawful interception of communication by requiring ...
Teachers College, Columbia University (TC) is the graduate school of education affiliated with Columbia University, a private research university in New York City. [2][3] Founded in 1887, Teachers College has been a part of Columbia University since 1898. [3][4]
The economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States has been widely disruptive, adversely affecting travel, financial markets, employment, shipping, and other industries. The impacts can be attributed not just to government intervention to contain the virus (including at the federal and state level), but also to consumer and business behavior to reduce exposure to and spread of ...
The Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America-College Retirement Equities Fund (TIAA, formerly TIAA-CREF) is an American financial services organization that is a private provider of financial retirement services in the academic, research, medical, cultural and governmental fields.
The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) is a labor union that represents teachers, paraprofessionals, and clinicians in the Chicago public school system. The union has advocated for improved pay, benefits, and job security for its members, and it has opposed efforts to vary teacher pay based on performance evaluations. It also called for improvements in the Chicago schools, and asserts that its ...
The term technological unemployment is used to describe the loss of jobs caused by technological change. [1][2][3] It is a key type of structural unemployment. Technological change typically includes the introduction of labour-saving "mechanical-muscle" machines or more efficient "mechanical-mind" processes (automation), and humans' role in these processes are minimized. [4] Just as horses ...