We lost big and must face the consequences of the loss.

All the staff at PS 55 in the South Bronx, which is part of the Positive Learning Collaborative, speak common language, which is about listening to the student, validating the student’s emotions and providing tools so the student can better manage...

Juan Carlos Perez's story of his progress from undocumented immigrant to teacher of immigrant students seems like a classic American success story — yet it is one that could be irrevocably altered by the election of Donald Trump.

The DOE on Nov. 18 agreed to provide $33 million in back pay to thousands of UFT members who have spent many hours outside their regular workday since Jan. 1, 2013 logging student data onto the DOE's SESIS system.

The UFT and the DOE on Nov. 18 signed an agreement that addresses the challenging working conditions that speech teachers have faced when documenting their work with children with speech and language delays in the SESIS system.

With the election of Donald Trump as president, all bets about the future of "corporate" education reform are off, and public school advocates are bracing for the worst.
That was the consensus of a panelists participating in a Nov. 16 conference on...

The UFT held its first-ever conference focused on teaching English language learners on Oct. 29, but judging from the enthusiasm of the overflow crowd of nearly 800 educators, I am certain it will not be the last.

The first annual conference for educators of English language learners — ELL Raising — on Saturday, Oct. 29 at union headquarters resembled a meeting of the U.N. General Assembly.

As a child in Long Island, Amy Spears had a ringside seat for emergencies and life-saving efforts. Her father was a volunteer EMT. On Oct. 20, Spears, now a math teacher at Louis Armstrong MS, was called upon to save a child's life.


Students at the Academy of Finance and Enterprise in Long Island City, Queens, have something in common with Google: a computer lab with no walls.