After the Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey 4-foot-10-inch acrobat tossed the 6-foot-5-inch circus ringmaster over his shoulder and spun him around on the auditorium stage of PS 24 in Sunset Park, students learned an anti-bullying lesson like none they...

Kathleen Wesa, a practicing physician from the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center’s Integrative Medicine Service, lectured on how to maintain a healthy lifestyle and reduce the risks of disease using mind-body therapies and nutritional...

More than 270 friends and members of the UFT’s African Heritage Committee kicked off Black History Month with a bang at the committee’s 11th annual dinner dance and awards ceremony on Feb. 7.

Folksinger Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul and Mary fame was awarded the Hubert H. Humphrey Humanitarian Award during the 54th annual Greater Metropolitan New York Social Studies Conference luncheon at UFT headquarters in Manhattan on Feb. 1.

What’s a new teacher to do when an existing curriculum doesn’t tell the whole story? Fayette Colon, an ambitious social studies teacher at Harvest Collegiate HS in Manhattan, had a solution: She created her own.

The city’s plan to deliver high-quality after-school programs in every middle school in the 2014-2015 school year goes beyond providing a place for a child to get homework assistance, according to a report released by the Mayor’s Office on March 3...

More than a thousand UFT members traveled to Albany on March 5 so state lawmakers would hear first-hand the concerns and issues of classroom educators and other members.

After a week in which charter school operator Eva Moskowitz sought to pit charter schools against public schools, a coalition of district and charter school parents, elected officials and community leaders gathered on March 3 for a “unity rally”...

A survey of New York City public school teachers has revealed systemwide problems with a lack of supplies, Common Core curriculum materials and internet bandwidth, along with complaints that students are not getting enough tutoring and library time...