I just received The Retiree newsletter and was disappointed to see a picture of Mayor de Blasio and AFT President Randi Weingarten campaigning in Florida for Andrew Gillum, the Democratic candidate for governor there who fortunately lost.

Regarding the article “Keeping the Dream alive” [Education Nation, Jan. 3], it appears that teacher Elizabeth Villanueva is proud that she and her mother entered this country illegally and took advantage of benefits and rights reserved for legal...

Critical thinking is the cornerstone of education. That is axiomatic. Enshrining this principle of critical thinking in teaching is the theme of Patrick Sprinkle’s Teacher to Teacher article headlined “Is it fake news?” [Dec. 6].

The newly elected Democratic majority in the New York State Senate passed long-stymied electoral reforms on Jan. 14 that will propel our state toward its rightful place as a progressive beacon for the rest of the United States.

Our hard-earned rights and benefits become meaningless unless we’re willing to defend them. Standing up for ourselves and our students through collective action looks different from one school to the next, but taken all together, our ability to act...

There are truths about the human cost of the 34-day federal government shutdown that we should remember for a long time to come.

Between our recent collective bargaining on teacher evaluation and this latest bill, we’re moving toward a system that no longer makes test scores the focal point of teacher evaluations. It’s all part of recasting the evaluation system as an...

There are certain guns that people should not have access to, and there are certain people who should not have access to any guns.

In the Dec. 6 issue, the New York Teacher rightfully celebrated the results of the 2018 election.