UFT members were among the thousands of workers and community activists who lit up Foley Square on Dec. 5, singing, dancing, chanting and carrying candles inscribed with their dreams for a better New York. The rally was a celebration of the end of...

Get involved. That’s the message echoed by these five parents. At this year’s UFT parent conferences, held this fall in each of the five boroughs, they — along with hundreds of other parents — attended workshops on everything from grant-writing to...

Twenty-six high schools in New York City are part of the New York Performance Standards Consortium, which receives state waivers exempting students from nearly all Regents exams. The exemption means more than an absence of tests, say teachers and...

The UFT Delegate Assembly passed a resolution at its Nov. 20 meeting to make it a priority in its negotiations for the next teachers’ contract to have a much larger menu of options for the local measures of student learning in the teacher evaluation...

This is my first year doing kindergarten and I am very proud of how my 'monster theme' classroom came out.

A District 75 paraprofessional in the Bronx who was terminated by the Department of Education in October, 2010 is back in the classroom with full back pay and benefits after an arbitrator ruled that the DOE investigation resulting in her firing was...

Unionized charter school educators came out to a recent board meeting of the New York City Charter High School for Architecture, Engineering and The Construction Industries in the Bronx to support the faculty who has been fighting for three years for...

High school students become most engaged with their classes when teachers show how subject matter relates to students’ lives and encourage them to share opinions and ideas, new research shows.

Bryan Stromer, then a senior at the NYC Lab School for Collaborative Studies in Chelsea, had a brainstorm: What if they could get students to embrace their differences — the very things that may have been the cause of teasing throughout their lives...

It will take years, but now is not the time to rest on our laurels. There are tremendous forces gathering to oppose us and our new mayor.