Union members enrolled in the UFT Welfare Fund and their eligible dependents can now get eyeglasses or contact lenses more ...
Retiree Mark Grashow was visiting a high school in northern Zimbabwe 18 years ago when a teacher showed him a battered edition of “Romeo and Juliet,” which no students were allowed to touch or read ...
So you taught it only yesterday, but today your students remember none of it! As a middle school social studies teacher, I’ve faced this challenge countless times. This year, while teaching ...
Integrating the arts into the curriculum yields many benefits for students, from building social and emotional skills to developing creative talents and fostering cultural awareness. Incorporating art ...
Reading scores dropped to a new low on the 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress, while math scores were stagnant for 8th-graders and up slightly for 4th-graders. The NAEP results, often ...
The fact that the Justice Department is holding you hostage on your criminal case does not mean that you are free to ignore your responsibilities to the children and educators of New York City. Since ...
We are approaching an important milestone in career and technical education: The Success Via Apprenticeship (SVA) program, which trains the CTE educators of the future, is celebrating its 40th year.
More than 5,500 UFT members are employed by organizations other than the Department of Education. They are members of the union’s private and nonprofit chapters, and such members encompass some 26 ...
Summertime holds a special place in the hearts of educators when we take a well-deserved break to recharge our batteries. But for some of us, summer is the time to take teacher institutes offered by ...
Emy Vanderpool wasn’t ready to retire in the summer of 2022, but she had no choice due to health reasons. “I felt so lost, like I lost my purpose,” she said. That changed when the retired music ...
“Be kind, rewind” is a slogan that disappeared with VHS tapes, but it succinctly illustrates the basic elements of kindness: Even a small, seemingly trivial act can make life a little better for ...
Every year, between December and March, our chapter pauses its monthly membership meetings to accommodate the UFT Welfare Fund retiree benefits meetings. In that interval, I have some time to reflect ...