Students, educators, parents and advocates from around the city rallied in Foley Square on May 21 to support the creation of more community schools.

Seventy-five educators enjoyed on June 5 their traditional end-of-the-school-year dinner, where Mel Aaronson, the union’s treasurer, was honored with the Jeanettee DiLorenzo Lifetime Achievement Award.

New Orleans' Recovery School District has just closed its last five public schools, making it the nation's first all-charter district. The city shows that unfettered growth of charter schools can lead to unequal acess and a loss of public oversight.

Elementary school students spend as much as 29 percent of their time “off-task” during the school day. The researchers found that the amount of time varies depending on the type of instructional activity in which students are engaged.

UFT Veterans Committee members again paid tribute to America’s veterans by participating in the annual Memorial Day wreath-laying ceremony at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial at Water Street in lower Manhattan on May 21.

In his book “Democracy’s Champion: Albert Shanker and the International Impact of the American Federation of Teachers,” Eric Chenoweth focuses on the union leader’s sustained and pioneering efforts to strengthen workers’ rights and to support union...

With our society’s increasing reliance on technology, writing and publishing have become immediate and public. Students no longer have to write only for an audience of one.

As part of a dramatic new approach to judging public schools, Illinois has introduced lower standards for black, Latino and low-income students — a move that has troubled civil rights advocates and some local educators.

Learning in a 4th-grade class and an 8th-grade math class in two Bensonhurst schools has been transformed by 3D computers.