When educators are bogged down with unnecessary and duplicative paperwork, it takes valuable time away from the work of educating and supporting our students. For that reason, the UFT negotiated a contractual clause in the 2014 contract that is...

The 1st-graders from PS 166 in Astoria played in the dirt, squished the loamy soil through their fingers and grabbed handfuls of gravel as they set about creating individual terrariums. The fun was all part of a class trip to the Voelker Orth Museum...

Labor gains and labor losses are most often incremental and these days successes and failures can go in both directions at the same time.

There is a place in education for standards and standardized exams aligned to them. The problem is that they have been used improperly, not just in New York but all across our nation.

Our need for unity has rarely been more important. The U.S. labor movement — including the UFT — is under concerted attack from far-right conservatives who have as their end goal the destruction of unions and the rights we defend.

To do their jobs well, educators need to understand their students’ lives and cultures. This involves skills we often downplay in Western culture: the art of listening and asking questions with humility.

Some 350 other educators came together at union headquarters to discuss and promote language teachers and the crucial service they provide in an increasingly diverse world.

The terrible recession that hit New York City in 2007–8 was officially over in June 2009, but it was far from over for the city’s low-income families. Stagnant wages and soaring rents have forced thousands of children into homelessness in the years...

It’s not easy being chief executive officer of a virtual company when the work required is very real. Ask the students at Susan E. Wagner HS on Staten Island.

UFT members who attended a UFT Welfare Fund health seminar on “Keeping Your Heart Healthy” heard a detailed presentation on heart disease, including a review of its symptoms and discussion of the heart attacks and strokes it can cause.