Kim Pinckney is worried for her son. The New Jersey mom has been watching as the Trump administration has used the federal ...

On May 2, the Trump administration unveiled its blueprint for the fiscal year 2025-06 federal budget. Since it does not list specific funding requests for every federal program, the 46-page document ...

This year, the teachers in Wishek (population: 839) each got a $700 raise. With that, the town’s new teachers finally will clear $50,000, but the raise isn’t exactly changing lives. “I think about ...

WHEREAS, the rapid adoption and expansion of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are permeating throughout several industries and trades; and WHEREAS, K–12 and higher education are not immune ...

The average teacher in the U.S. earned a little more than $72,000 last year—a 3.8 percent increase over the previous year, according to NEA’s annual educator pay reports. That’s the good news. The bad ...

“I was always one of those high school students who had to get involved in things. … I was nosy, so what better way than to get involved?” These were the words of Shirley George, some 30 years ago, as ...

Bill Lyne is a professor of English at Western Washington University and president of the United Faculty of Washington State. It is tempting to look for facile historical congruences and imagine that ...

Planning for retirement is inherently difficult. We don’t know how long we will work. We don’t know exactly how much our pension and/or Social Security will be. We don’t know how much we will spend in ...

Immigration and the demonizing of immigrants was central to President Trump’s 2024 election campaign and since his re-election, he and his staff have consistently signaled an intent to engage not only ...

NEA Higher Ed members are sitting on mountains of data that they assembled through federally funded research but are now cut off before sharing the findings that U.S. taxpayers paid for. Their topics ...

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 ...

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 ...