Many years ago UFT Treasurer Mel Aaronson [who has retired from the board of the Teachers’ Retirement System] helped me with a situation that no one else in the retirement office could. What I was struggling with for months, he solved in a week! What...

I think it is on purpose the exams are hard. It keeps the test prep companies continuing to purchase test prep materials. It keeps the textbook companies in business and, of course, the test makers going as well. It’s a vicious cycle for us, the...

A high school English teacher in Queens builds a library of graphic novels for his struggling readers. A pre-K teacher in the East Village helps her students care for their own caterpillars as they transform into butterflies. And a 3rd-grade teacher...

The UFT and the DOE reached agreement on May 19 on a broader set of enforceable paperwork standards in the union’s ongoing effort to reduce and eliminate the excessive paper and electronic demands that is taking educators' time away from their...

The state Board of Regents openly challenged the wisdom of making the mandated changes to the state’s teacher evaluation system at a meeting in Albany on May 18 as the deadline for adopting the changes approached.

More than 200 UFT members, their family members and friends gathered at the Astoria Manor in Queens on May 14 for the 10th annual Friends of District 75 awards ceremony.

More than 250 members of the Federation of Nurses/UFT gathered at UFT headquarters in Manhattan on May 6 to celebrate National Nurses Recognition Day, the kickoff to National Nurses Week, at the union’s second annual Nurse Recognition Day Celebration...

June 2015 marks the 80th birthday of Social Security and the 50th birthday of Medicare. Instead of “Happy Birthday,” the song verse that comes to mind is by the well-known labor troubadour Joe Glazer.

Grants for high school music programs, technology, youth-led community action programs, information science teachers, educators who build entrepreneurial skills and geometry.

Tyler Spielberg, a wellness teacher and basketball coach at Quest to Learn, a new middle and high school in Chelsea, uses his fashion sense and common sense to teach and reach that prickly population known as middle schoolers.