Thousands of fast-food workers in 150 American cities and another 80 cities in 32 countries hit the streets on May 15, walking off the job to demand a $15 per hour wage and the right to form a union without retaliation.

Community activists filed three federal civil rights complaints on May 13 challenging school closures in Newark, New Orleans and Chicago that they say disproportionately affect African-American students.

Teachers are blamed for the dysfunction of the education system in America, but have little or no say in the laws and policies that regulate schools.

I was happy to see that there was a rally in support of the Community Learning Schools Initiative on May 21 [see page 7]. When I first started teaching, I was in a community school. It was really good for all involved. It was like the village raising...

We take for granted that nurses and other health care workers routinely lift patients. They move patients from beds to wheelchairs, from stationary beds to wheeled hospital gurneys, from lying prone on a bed to sitting up.

My unique group of 3rd-grade self-contained students published their own class book.

Sixty years ago on May 17, the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed segregation in the nation’s public schools.

In a resounding win for teacher professionalism and teacher voice, an arbitrator has ruled that “lesson plans are for the personal use of the teacher” and that principals may not “mandate specific elements of lesson plans.”

The school community at IS 24 on Staten Island came together on May 9 to show their love and appreciation for Teresa Castellano, a paraprofessional who died this past fall.