New York City compares the performance of schools with similar levels of student poverty. But new research says this is a flawed method for comparing schools. A school’s performance is affected less by how many students are poor than by how many face...

Grants for studying humanities, school-based running programs, programs that improve student learning, creative leadership team-building in elementary schools, studying the impact of industrialization in America, mathematics study, school gardens and...

Tips for financial security inlcude using your TRS annual benefits statement for retirement planning, making sure you have enough insurance and taking advantage of free credit reports to check for errors or identity theft.

UFT President Michael Mulgrew met with close to 200 occupational and physical therapist members of the union at a Meet the President event. 


More than 100 staff members of PS 45 in Staten Island attended a meeting on Jan. 27 with the staff of the Institute for Understanding Behavior, a consortium of the New York City Department of Education and the UFT.

In the second of a series of blog posts for edwize, Patrick Nau, a teacher at PS 369 in the Bronx, reflects upon his training with the Institute for Understanding Behavior and how he will apply what he has learned to his classroom and school.

Visit the AFT-sponsored Share My Lesson website for free lesson plans, activities and classroom materials using the Winter Olympics as a theme.

Considering our collective world view as teacher unionists from a progressive viewpoint, it is timely early in the year to try to make sense of the forces arrayed against us and the baffling logic that motivates them.

Kindergartners from PS/MS 207 in Howard Beach took a class trip to the 300-year-old Queens County Farm on Jan. 23. The students were in the midst of a literacy unit comparing present and past, and the children had come to the farm to witness some of...

The Robert G. Porter Scholars Program offers four four-year, $8,000 post-secondary scholarships to high school seniors who are dependents of AFT members, as well as 10 one-time $1,000 grants to AFT members.