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Walking into poetry

Although there is an emphasis now on teaching informational texts, making space in the curriculum for poetry can benefit students, writes a Queens educator in our latest Teacher to Teacher column.

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Co-location thwarted at B'klyn school

Teachers and parents at the Andries Hudde Middle School in Flatbush won a rare victory when the DOE was forced to drop its plan to co-locate a charter school inside their building.

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Brooklyn's chess juggernaut

The chess club at Edward R. Murrow HS, founded by math teacher Eliot Weiss in the 1980s, has won the National High School Championship eight times.

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Thousands rally for fair contracts

Calling for respect and economic fairness, UFT members joined other city workers at City Hall Park on June 12 for the Fair Contracts for All Rally.

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Market-Oriented Reforms Really Don’t Work. What Should We Do Instead?

As many of us have long suspected, the impacts of popular market-oriented reforms are not as positive as their proponents would have us believe. Guest blogger Elaine Weiss suggests a way forward.

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UCAN/FirstBook time lapse video

Over the course of 24 hours in a parking lot outside the UFT’s Bronx borough office, 250 UCAN volunteers organized and distributed more than 40,000 free books to 1,000 educators and parents. The event was jointly sponsored by the UFT, the American Federation of Teachers, and the nonprofit organization, First Book.

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