I have often wondered why there has never been a study involving teachers who transfer between poorly rated schools and highly rated ones. It would be interesting to have a study that placed a number of teachers from successful schools into failing...

We need more support for public schools, not two school systems, where charter schools siphon resources and space from public schools.

September was Prostate Cancer Awareness Month. The death rate from prostate cancer is 23.0 per 100,000 and from breast cancer 22.6 per 100,000 per year. Very similar statistics and yet the funds allocated for breast cancer research are almost three...

My students always did very well on the Advanced Placement Language and Composition test; the conclusion one could take from such data was that I was a very successful teacher.

Regarding the most recent anti-tenure lawsuits, the UFT saved due process 46 years ago when we went out on strike for three months. We will save it today when the fight takes place in the court.

Class size doesn’t matter. That’s a common theme among the so-called reformers who contend that an effective teacher can teach a class of any size, as if there is no difference in opportunities for teaching and learning in a class of 30 or 35...

A team of members of the Federation of Nurses/UFT joined 50,000 other marchers for the first time in the annual Walk to Defeat ALS — amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig’s disease — at East Meadow, Long Island, on Sept. 20.

At their first School Leadership Team meeting of the year on Sept. 9, parents, staff and students at East Harlem’s PS 206 got to brainstorm parent engagement ideas with UFT President Michael Mulgrew and Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña.

Learning to play a musical instrument or to sing has ripple effects in other areas of academic achievement including language and reading, according to new research in the Journal of Neuroscience.

Staffers from embattled Long Island City HS were busy on the phones well into the evening on the first days of the new school year calling parents in an effort to get all students on the register into school so the high school wouldn’t suffer any...