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Snack time is learning time

Snack carts at District 75 school in the Bronx provide an innovative way for students to learn about commerce, coins and communication.

Dec. 8, 2009: UFT Launches Member Assistance Program

The UFT’s Member Assistance Program was launched on Dec. 8, 2009.

Good hang-ups

What’s a teacher to do when students are focused on their cellphones instead of the day’s lesson?

Illustrating tradition

A love of art connects the past to the present at the HS of Art and Design in midtown Manhattan, where the biannual Draw-a-Thon builds on a legacy begun in the late 1970s, when students would gather before class to practice drawing one of their...

Noteworthy Graduates

Celebrating ‘an equitable education for all’

UFT members were among the thousands of educators, parents and students who turned out on Oct. 13 for a day of celebration of public schools organized by United Way of New York City.

Sailing back in time

Fifth-graders from PS 194 in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, repeated the cries that once echoed around the busy port of New York as they raised the sail on an 1885 cargo ship during a class trip to Manhattan’s South Street Seaport Museum on Oct. 7.

Sailing back in time

Fifth-graders from PS 194 in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, repeated the cries that once echoed around the busy port of New York as they raised the sail on an 1885 cargo ship during a class trip to Manhattan’s South Street Seaport Museum on Oct. 7.

Building self-esteem in Queens

Teachers and students at PS/IS 116 in Jamaica, Queens, worked together to beautify the school's girls' bathroom.

Noteworthy graduate: Carla Boutin-Foster, medical school dean

Carla Boutin-Foster is a world away from the 5-year-old who spoke only Creole when her parents — sights firmly set on the American dream — brought her to Brooklyn from Haiti.