NEA President Princess Moss spent 21 years teaching in a rural Virginia school district, where thousands of neighbors show up ...

According to the latest NEA data, teacher salaries continue to increase, but they have not kept pace with inflation over the past decade, leaving many educators financially worse off. As educator ...

Jean Crockett knows very well how the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) transformed life for students with disabilities. When she was an elementary school teacher in the 1970s, she ...

A Filipino American family’s story, from the early 20th century through the present, is told by four generations of sons—Francisco, Emil, Chris, and Enzo—as each struggles with identity, family and ...

Remembrance Day on January 27 annually on its website and through other appropriate media to recognize the systemic persecution and murder of six million Jews. The Nazi regime also persecuted and ...

When the Individual with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) was enacted, Congress committed to fund 40 percent of the average per pupil cost for special education. A half-century later, students who ...

One of the major takeaways from the U.S. Global Change Research Program’s Fifth National Climate Assessment from fall 2023 is that the United States is warming faster than the rest of the world due to ...

WASHINGTON — U.S. educators still suffer from too-low wages and a lack of professional respect, according to four new reports examining educator pay and school funding from pre-K through college. The ...

Annual reports from NEA examine educator pay and school funding from pre-K through college show that salaries continue to lag woefully behind inflation over the past decade. Low pay limits the ability ...

The Trump administration has cancelled millions of dollars in grants that supported teacher development across the U.S. These grants were created to reduce the national teacher shortage. They helped ...

When Tricia Brown’s principal asked her this question last year, that was her opportunity to discuss her most significant accomplishment: Cultivating connection and safety among her second graders—all ...

Between 2012 and 2024, the number of unionized faculty grew by 7.5 percent. During that same time, the number of grad-student employees in unions grew even faster, by 133 percent. A key issue for ...