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If you’re an educator, you can count on this: lawmakers in Washington, D.C. are currently deciding how much time you will be able to devote to actual teaching and whether equal educational opportunities are delivered to every child.

Seven New York State Teachers of the Year have written an open letter to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, blasting his new proposed education reforms that, among other things, link half of a teacher’s evaluation to student standardized test scores. 

To be among the best, we should be doing what the best are doing.

A summary of how the nations of the world are ranked according to children’s test scores.

Thanks to a mysterious legislative mandate tacked onto the state budget, North Carolina will now be home to two new experiments in online schooling.

After a long stretch as the law of the land, annual standardized tests are being put to, well, the test.

NEA President Lily Eskelsen García shares the text from her recent letter to Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.

The tests created for the Common Core Standards are not what we were told they would be.

The Obama administration unveiled a proposal to regulate how the country prepares teachers, saying that too many new K-12 educators are not ready for the classroom and that training programs must improve.

A letter to the editors of TIME Magazine by NEA President, Lily Eskelsen García, concerning Teacher Tenure.