I work in a public school where I receive several new students every Nov. 1 who have been turned away from their immaculate charter schools.

My students were grateful for the opportunity to have the OneSight eye clinic give them free eye exams and provide glasses for those who needed them. This UFT partnership has made my time in the classroom just a tad bit easier.

Many of us were haunted last fall by the story of Dasani — one of the 22,000 children living in homeless shelters in New York City, and a student at the McKinney Secondary School of the Arts in Brooklyn. The New York Times followed her and her family...

My kindergarteners and I discussed good writing by charting levels on this rubric.

The UFT and New York City leaders reached a historic proposed contract on May 1 that the union’s leaders and city officials say demonstrates the extraordinary progress possible in public schools when a city works in partnership with its educators.

A jubilant crowd of 1,675 UFT members celebrated the dawn of a new era with educators back in control of the city’s public school system at the union’s annual Spring Education Conference on April 26.

The new agreement will restore dignity and respect to our profession, improve our working conditions and secure the retroactive pay we are now owed while at the same time ensuring that our schools and students receive the supports that they need to...

International education giant Pearson has won a major Common Core contract.

A silver medalist in fencing at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Erinn Smart credits her Brooklyn public school teachers with helping her succeed in sports and life.

New research finds that teachers who work in supportive professional environments show greater gains in effectiveness than teachers in schools that are less supportive.