How educators are using spoken histories from the Making Gay History podcast to teach empathy, complexity, and inclusion.

Bullying occurs once every seven minutes. While you read this tip sheet, it is likely that at least one bullying incident will have occurred. In schools across America, one in three students report ...

Safe and affirming schools are a core element of student success. When students feel that they are not welcome, their ability to learn and thrive is diminished. We can create schools where every ...

William (Bill) John Farmer is a high school science teacher from Evanston, Ill., with nearly two decades of classroom experience. He was elected to the NEA Executive Committee in 2025 for a three-year ...

Last year, a housing study in Carroll County, where Porter works, found that a person would need to earn at least $63,000 a ...

lower class sizes; give support to students with ADHD, dyslexia, and other disabilities; feed hungry students so they can learn; provide one-on-one tutoring; and make the cost of higher education and ...

Across the U.S., 32 states spent less on public colleges and universities in 2020 than in 2008, with an average decline of nearly $1,500 per student. As a result, students need to pay (and borrow) ...

As the nation continues to reckon with the role racism plays in society, a tiny but extremely vocal minority is determined to turn our classrooms into battlegrounds for their vicious culture wars. The ...

About one-third of teachers nationally teach in one of the 18 states that have passed laws restricting instruction around so-called "divisive concepts," such as race, gender identity, and sexual ...

Being exposed to the traumas students bring into school every day can exact an emotional and physical toll on teachers and other educators. Research suggests that compassion fatigue and secondary ...

The push to establish or expand private school vouchers has accelerated in 2023. Increasingly, these proposals have stripped income limits, allowing even affluent families to apply for taxpayer-funded ...

Soon after ChatGPT launched in November 2022, some large school districts, concerned about student cheating, immediately blocked access. ChatGPT-generated work has left many teachers spending more ...