Parent anger at high-stakes testing stoked by Governor Cuomo’s test-focused education agenda has fueled a growing opt-out movement in New York State. 


Six chapter leaders were honored on April 16 at the District 21 UFT Scholarship Fund Dinner Dance, an annual event in which the school communities in the southern part of Brooklyn gather to celebrate their own.

Think alouds are also a great way to assess if your students are understanding the material. If they are able to explain how they reached their answer, then you know they wholly understand what are you teaching, rather than just taking a guess.

Music teacher Adam Goldberg has created a technology band at PS 177, a District 75 school in Fresh Meadows, where some students play traditional instruments and others play the iPad. Playing music on the iPad provides a unique form of self-expression...

UFT President Michael Mulgrew informed the April 15 Delegate Assembly of developments at a federal level that could provide long-term relief for students and educators fed up with high-stakes testing.

UFT President Michael Mulgrew introduced delegates to the box graphic or matrix scoring system that will be part of the mandated changes to the teacher evaluation system in the 2015 contract. He said that the new scoring system would be fairer and...

School districts may have until September 2016 to implement mandated changes to the teacher evaluation system after the New York State Board of Regents declared that the changes couldn’t be put in place by this fall.

These tech resources for art and music content are helpful for both licensed arts teachers and those seeking to incorporate arts content into other subjects.

Grants for lab makeovers, math and science teachers, literacy, continuum physics, micro-entrepeneurs, economics educators, physics teachers, tech job preparation and promoting running.

A new study of classroom design finds that lighting, student ownership of space and air quality, in that order, have the most impact on student achievement.