The Trump administration announced Tuesday its intention to shift multiple Department of Education functions to other federal agencies—an unprecedented, unilateral attempt to dismantle a department ...

This toolkit contains ideas for recognizing and celebrating Education Support Professionals. In this toolkit, you will find a guide to setting up ESP Day events, along with many other ways to ...

Across the U.S., 32 states spent less on public colleges and universities in 2020 than in 2008, with an average decline of nearly $1,500 per student. As a result, students need to pay (and borrow) ...

According to a recent NEA member survey, a staggering 55 percent of educators say they are thinking about leaving the profession earlier than planned. While fallout from the pandemic could be the ...

The teacher pay penalty is the gap between the weekly wages of teachers and college graduates working in other professions. A new report by the Economic Policy Institute finds that gap has more than ...

Standardized tests don’t accurately measure student learning and growth. Unlike standardized tests, performance-based assessment allows students to choose how they show learning. Performance-based ...

NEA supports the use of best practices and evidence-based inclusion strategies for every student with disabilities in the least restrictive environment and has recognized several steps that should be ...

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 ...

Since the enactment of universal school voucher programs, states are struggling with the programs’ cost and lack of transparency and accountability. Overwhelmingly, school vouchers are being used by ...

According to a new survey from the American Psychological Association, one-third of teachers report that they experienced at least one incident of verbal harassment or threat of violence from students ...

A growing number of educators believe equity and inclusion in the classroom begins with honoring—and therefore correctly pronouncing—students' names. Teachers will inevitably find some names hard to ...

Several main currents in the history of American educational testing are established. Formal written tests begins to replace oral examinations administered by teachers and schools at roughly the same ...