United Teachers of Dade was the first to face a major challenge to its role. Backed by anti-union national organizations, an alternative group aimed to upend UTD in a vote of eligible members. Please register to continue reading and get the news you need. Urologists Baffled: Men Shrinking Prostates with...

Many students show very little interest in school projects, often finding them to be boring and not relatable. To accommodate children’s perspectives, educators often go out of their way to come up with appealing ways to learn. But one middle school teacher took it to another level, as per a woman named Nico (@nicorette on TikTok), who was upset after learning her daughter was expected to act subservient as part of a class assignment on ancient Greek civilization.

This paid piece is sponsored by Bishop O’Gorman Catholic Schools. Teaching with purpose in a faith-based environment is how Ellie Richards, a third-grade teacher at St. Michael Elementary School, describes her work. Richards is nearly finished with her first year of teaching and has a lot to say about...

Elementary teachers and veteran K-12 educators were least likely to recommend teaching, a Pew survey found. Some ways they say it could be improved.

SIBLEY—Support for students at Sibley-Ocheyedan Middle School grew with the creation of a dean of students position in Sibley for fifth- through eighth-graders. Julie Schuller accepted the position as a familiar face to most of the students now in her charge. She spent 12 years teaching third-grade at Sibley-Ocheyedan Elementary before transferring to the middle school for a social studies position in 2017.

Anyone who has tried to wrangle a classroom of kids knows that it's a formidable feat at any age. Having a group of learners who are engaged, attentive and reasonably courteous is the goal, but managing diverse personalities from various backgrounds and home environments and who have different standards and expectations of behavior can be tricky. Some teachers take the old-school "law and order" approach, laying out a list of classroom rules everyone is supposed to follow. Those who don't fall in line face consequences of some sort. But high school Language Arts teacher Monte Syrie takes a different tack—one that sees students as valued citizens of a community instead of young people to be controlled.

This episode explores the activism of Black Teachers in the 1950s. When a number of teachers lost their jobs during the desegregation period, they sprang into action triggering the actions of the NAACP. As public education became a highly contested terrain, teachers moved to the forefront in this oft-forgotten chapter of the Civil Rights Movement.

On the spectrum of professional experience for K-12 teachers, I am decidedly on the greener side. Although I knew I had a passion for teaching before entering college, I always had this idea in my head that teaching K-12 education wasn’t a real or appropriate profession for an Ivy League, engineering graduate like myself.

Many students at Kinnelon High School believe that assistant and student teachers just sit and watch another teacher teach, and then answer your question occasionally. However, student teachers do a lot more than students may believe. Assistant and student teacher Nick Lupo helps history teacher Danielle Elia out around her class in many ways. Not only is Lupo helping her, but along the way, Lupo is learning new things as a student teacher.