The academic capability of new teachers in New York City has risen over the past 15 years, new research shows.

By connecting suppliers with consumers via apps and online marketplaces, the companies of the new “sharing economy” specialize in getting you what you need when you need it. But the convenience they provide comes at a cost for workers.

Mayor Bill de Blasio and Chancellor Carmen Fariña on Jan. 7 announced the lifting of the ban on cellphones in city schools. Going forward, the Department of Education will allow schools to develop cellphone policies tailored to their individual needs...

Adjunct professors are organizing unions at a growing number of colleges across the country, especially in California, where part-time faculty at almost a dozen colleges are now in the midst of organizing drives or first-time contract negotiations.

What does good reading instruction look like? 
It would be so nice if it were easy to say.

Constantly organizing new members is critical to the health of every union, and the UFT is no exception. Unions must either grow or decline; a union that is not expanding is in trouble.

Find out about theatre awards for teachers, a challenge to solve hunger issues, funding awesome ideas, nutrition grants for pre-K, tech-savvy educators, K–12 seminars, technology and foreign language awards and free safety curricula.

If you received one or more of the distributions listed below during 2014, you are required to report the total gross amount of the distribution in box 16a and the taxable amount of the distribution in box 16b on your 2014 federal income tax form...

February is one of those months. The afterglow of the holidays is gone. Those of us shivering in the north and even the unhuddled southern snowbirds have time to reflect on the wintry depths of experience or memory.

Abigail Wray, a speech teacher at PS 230 in Kensington, Brooklyn, relishes the unique challenge of working with 30 students across grades 2–5.