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Is Teacher Stress Declining?
Is Teacher Stress Declining?
New research takes a look at the state of educator well-being—and how it stacks up against workers in other professions.
Community Schools Grow, Despite Trump Attacks
Community Schools Grow, Despite Trump Attacks
NEA joins coalition in a lawsuit to challenge unlawful termination of Full-Service Community School grants.
Before Brown v. Board, There Was Alice Piper
Before Brown v. Board, There Was Alice Piper
Thirty years before Brown transformed public education in the United States, a 15-year-old Paiute student named Alice Piper stood at the center of a landmark legal victory that challenged school segregation.
From Mold Concerns to Collective Action
From Mold Concerns to Collective Action
How a group of Maryland educators advocated for healthier schools.
The Joy of Teaching
The Joy of Teaching
This is still a great job! Educators share their secrets for staying—happily—in the profession.
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Florida’s new approved sociology textbook cuts over 400 pages, removing chapters on race, gender, and inequality.
Let’s bring real change
“I think what people are worried about is: How do you maintain your academic integrity [when the state is telling you what to teach]. I’ve thought about it myself. What if that political agenda comes here? What’s my line that I won’t cross, where I can’t teach sociology anymore?”
— Sadie Pendaz-Foster, sociologist, Minnesota
Read how Florida educators and others are pushing back against censorship.
One in four residents of Hawaii are Filipino, but their history hasn't been part of the school curriculum—until now.
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“Filipinos are never seen. We’re the third-largest Asian American population in the United States but we’re largely ignored....A lot of research shows that if you’re teaching the kids about who they are and about their history and people, and you connect them with their culture, it will change their trajectory.”
— Michelle Aquino, teacher, Hawaii
Learn how a Hawaii educator created a Filipino history curriculum.
In districts with high levels of labor-management collaboration, educators were five times more likely to report a higher level of well-being.
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“We live in a society where lots of things are combative right now, and that feels like the default sometimes. At the end of the day, coming back to what we can do together for our students matters most. We have so much more in common in education than we have differences.”
— Tiffany Dittrich, president of White Bear Lake (Minn.) Area Educators
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