Elementary school teacher Shayna Scott worked in New Jersey for 20 years, but she didn’t realize the power of the state’s collective bargaining rights—until she moved away. Her New Jersey local, the ...

The bill the House GOP just passed is calling for trillions in tax cuts that heavily benefit billionaires—“paid for” with devastating cuts in education, health, and nutrition programs for students, ...

In Arlington, Va., education support professionals are making sure immigrant students and their families have the information ...

President Biden faced deeply complicated problems from the day he took office in January 2021. Many Americans were struggling and suffering at the height of the pandemic. But even as the ...

Changes in starting salaries are representative of what is happening with teacher salaries across the board, and this decrease in inflation-adjusted pay could not have come at a worse time. Though ...

The national average public school teacher salary rose to $69,544 in 2022-23, a 4.1 percent increase over the previous year, according to the 2024 NEA Rankings and Estimates report. Adjusted for ...

Cellphone bans in schools are proliferating in the face of mounting evidence that the devices are taking a serious toll on students' ability to focus in the classroom and their overall mental health.

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 ...

The RAND report found that well-being is especially poor among Hispanic/Latinx teachers, mid-career teachers and female teachers. Poor well-being and adverse working conditions were linked with ...

Average educator pay has failed to keep up with inflation. Teachers are making $3,644 less, on average, than they did 10 years ago, adjusted for inflation. Nearly 40% of all education support ...

The majority of college students today meet the criteria for at least one mental-health problem. The rates of mental-health problems are the same among students of all races, but students of color are ...

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 ...