Susan Gunderson, former private school teacher
I worked for eight years as a speech and language pathologist in a private school in Westchester County that made up the rules as it went along.
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Rachel Maller, former charter school teacher
In 2012, when I accepted a position at a charter school, I signed a whole bunch of things, including a piece of paper that said, “In our school, everyone is an administrator and everyone is a custodian.” I thought it was a euphemism for “We all help...
Pearson to sell U.S. K–12 curriculum business
Global education corporation Pearson will sell off its K–12 curriculum business in the United States.
Students stage mass walkouts against gun violence
Tens of thousands of students walked out of schools across the country on March 14 to protest Congressional inaction on gun violence.
DeVos trying to bust Education Department’s union
Unionized workers at the U.S. Department of Education filed a complaint on March 13 accusing the department of attempting to bust their union.</p>
Federal budget boosts U.S. education funding
After an earlier veto threat, President Donald Trump signed a spending bill on March 23 that provides $70 billion for federal education initiatives — a 6 percent increase over the previous year. Trump and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos had sought to...
Oklahoma teachers threaten to strike
Only a month after West Virginia teachers walked off the job to protest low pay and sky-high health insurance premiums, Oklahoma educators who have not had a raise in a decade are poised to stage a strike of their own. Teachers in Oklahoma earn $45...
Ready for takeoff
Henry Rey, a longtime licensed pilot and a teacher at Frederick Douglass Academy Preparatory School I in Manhattan, teaches students math and science through aeronautics and sparks their interest in aviation in a classroom that features four computer...
PE Works transforms gym class
Physical education is changing. In 2015, the Department of Education announced a multiyear, multimillion dollar initiative known as PE Works, which seeks to transform the concept of gym class from a place where kids pelt each other with dodgeballs to...
Embracing students’ right to play
All play has a purpose, author Kristi Mraz told 600 educators at the UFT’s 11th annual Early Childhood Conference on March 17. They began the day at union headquarters in Manhattan by tossing a beach ball around the audience and then settled in for...