A robotics team from Brooklyn Technical HS will be in St. Louis, Mo., April 23–26 vying for the international robotics championship title.

The morning started out like any other Monday for Tanisha Gill, a 1st-grade teacher at PS 66 in the Bronx. Then as Gill exited the No. 2 train at Freeman Street on March 31 on her way to school, she was approached on the platform by a girl who asked...

By now, all members covered by the new teacher evaluation process should have received the UFT’s end-of-year guide to the system. This is the first — and we hope the last — guide to ending a school year under this particular teacher evaluation and...

On April 2, the New York State Education Department, bowing to parent and public pressure — including from the UFT — agreed to sever its ties with inBloom, a nonprofit funded by the Gates and Carnegie foundations, which had contracted with Rupert...

Albany politicians used the state budget process to impose a ban on standardized testing in prekindergarten through second grade and restrict the use of state test results for student promotion. But no action was taken to remove the high stakes for...

For Geraldine Kentish and her two children, it’s a dream come true; a real home at last — thanks to the efforts of her son's former teacher.

Educational equity is a topic that is near and dear to early childhood educators. It is a subject that can never be exhausted, because we can always learn more and do more to spur great educational outcomes in all of our students, regardless of where...

For more than 45 million U.S. workers, not reporting to work because you’re sick means losing income — and sometimes your job.

Nurses at Staten Island Hospital on March 27 overwhelmingly approved a three-year contract that increases wages, preserves health benefits and improves the patient-nurse staffing ratio.

Celebrated scholar and blogger Diane Ravitch on April 8 mapped out the powerful, well-financed forces gunning to destroy public education across the nation — eliciting a rousing response from the full house of educators.