One of my goals as a new teacher was to create an organized, color-coded library system in my class to increase student independence in selecting and returning books to the library.

As educators we are accustomed to the rhythm of the academic year. We work long hours under much stress from September to June, and we use July and August to spend quality time with our loved ones, rejuvenate our minds and bodies and plan for the...

The City Council, at Mayor de Blasio’s bidding, reversed the damage done by Michael Bloomberg in 2013 to school-bus workers’ wages and benefits.

Fifty years ago UFT members were among the more than 200 other volunteers from around the country took a stand against racism and segregation by teaching in Freedom Schools in Mississippi.

One of the summer’s big stories was the environmental crisis in Toledo, Ohio, where algae blooms in Lake Erie made the water supply undrinkable for several days. It’s an issue with which Menachem Tabanpour is intimately familiar: He has been studying...

Do you count down the minutes at work or leave feeling defeated? Here are some tips about teaching that they didn’t teach you in college.

Thousands of union members, activists, parents and students rallied peacefully in Staten Island on Aug. 23 for justice in the case of Eric Garner, who died during an altercation with the police in July.

A new pilot initiative this school year has the potential to reinvigorate the parent-school connection that has become frayed in many of our middle schools.

Campbell Brown is now the face of the campaign to eliminate due process rights for teachers. No one knows for sure who is funding her new organization, the Partnership for Educational Justice, but a portrait is starting to emerge based on Brown’s...

Seven more schools were selected over the summer to participate in the UFT’s Community Learning Schools initiative, joining 16 existing schools. Two more will be named this fall.