AFT President Randi Weingarten joined American Federation of Professional Educators of North Carolina President Joanna Loftis ...

For exemplifying what it means to be a great union member, a school bus assistant and AFT member in West Virginia has placed ...

In recent months, healthcare professionals across several New Jersey healthcare systems have organized with Health ...

A recent controversy in the reading world is whether findings from reading research, sometimes referred to contemporaneously as the “science of reading,” apply to students who are not proficient in ...

How does the mind work—and especially how does it learn? Teachers’ instructional decisions are based on a mix of theories learned in teacher education, trial and error, craft knowledge, and gut ...

WASHINGTON—Leaders from industry, labor, education and philanthropy today launched the Compact for America's Youth, a challenge to public and private sector leaders to open real paths from school into ...

WASHINGTON—The AFT today released a new national survey that reveals a teaching profession in crisis, with educators stressed out, working second jobs, battling rising costs and forking out hundreds ...

In rural, high-poverty communities across upstate New York, our students face growing mental health needs. Rates of anxiety, depression, trauma exposure, and even suicidality continue to rise. Yet, ...

Our Mission The AFT is a union of professionals that champions fairness; democracy; economic opportunity; and high-quality public education, healthcare and public services for our students, their ...

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