I talked to a first-grade teacher some time back who told me she was retiring, and when I asked her what made her decide that it was time to leave the classroom, she said, "When they handed me the script." In light of recent news developments, I began...

For as long as we have had struggling schools in America's cities, there have been efforts to turn them around. Those of us committed to equal opportunity have always believed that education gives students a foothold on the ladder to success. Yet recent studies show the role of education as...

Over the past week, an almost unthinkable series of events unfolded in the Chester Upland School District near Philadelphia.

District leaders told educators that there wouldn't be enough money to pay them. Despite this disturbing and surprising news, educators voted to continue working as long as they were personally able...

NEA's Three-Point Plan to Strengthen Teaching, Improve Student Learning

The status quo in public education isn't working. Not for students -- and not for educators. Now, more than ever, our schools need a highly skilled and effective teaching force to guide students in meeting the challenges of the 21st century.

This piece comes to us courtesy of Education Nation’s The Learning Curve blog. Dennis Van Roekel, president of the National Education Association, writes.

This summer, the National Education Association took a historic vote and adopted a new policy statement. It put us on the...

When we see the face of a child, we think of the future. We think of their dreams about what they might become, and what they might accomplish. But today, there are 72 million children in the world who have had at least part of their futures stolen from them....

"Our society will not be great until every young mind is set free to scan the farthest reaches of thought and imagination."--Lyndon Johnson

In 1965, President Johnson laid out his vision for an America that would see an "an end to poverty and racial injustice" and where every child would...

Few people who saw Slumdog Millionaire were surprised when it swept the Academy Awards, winning eight Oscars including Best Picture. The inspiring and profitable rags-to-riches tale is now a bonafide phenomenon, one of the few independent movies to zoom past the $200 million mark at the worldwide box office.

The...