The DOE has canceled its three-year $9.6 million contract with CTB/McGraw-Hill in the wake of the numerous problems associated with the electronic scoring of Regents exams last spring.

It is in a way pretty simple: If we are going to be evaluated on our teaching, then we are entitled to get what we need to teach.

Mentoring programs aim to provide children with a relationship with a caring adult beyond family, teachers or other adults outside of school. When mentoring programs are based in schools, they often seek to improve students’ academic performance...

A recently passed California bill stipulating that this year’s student test scores will not be released has drawn a rebuke from U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan.

Thousands of teachers began the school year without promised Common Core-aligned textbooks, anchor texts, trade texts, teacher guides or manipulative materials, forcing them to improvise last-minute lessons and units.

Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, with the backing of the UFT and other labor unions, came from behind to cinch the Democratic nomination for city comptroller on Sept. 10. Forty-three of the 47 candidates that the union endorsed in City...

The UFT will, in partnership with the AFT’s Albert Shanker Institute, be co-hosting a conference that will bring together CTE educators, experts and industry partners on Oct. 10 and 11 to map out our vision for the future of career and technical...

Burn out? It’s not in Gloria Sfiroudis’ vocabulary. The 50-year veteran teacher headed back to PS 229 in Woodside in September with as much bounce in her step as she had in 1953.

Michael Bloomberg may think he’s above the law, but he’s not.