WASHINGTON—AFT President Randi Weingarten issued the following statement on the results of the 2026 midterms:“Tonight, the American people unequivocally rejected the corruption, cruelty, chaos and ...

AFT President Randi Weingarten issued the following after the United States District Court for Eastern District of Virginia ...

Across the country, AFT retirees are giving up their well-earned free time and their comfortable beds to travel hundreds of ...

WHEREAS, the promise of America is under attack from every angle—from economic policies that rob working people of opportunity, to the defunding and undermining of public education and higher ...

Our kids do not read well. According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, approximately 30 percent of students read well below their grade levels—it varies a bit by age—and another 30 ...

WHEREAS, nurses and health professionals are required to complete ongoing education, competencies and eLearning modules to maintain safe, evidence‑based practice; and WHEREAS, completing mandatory ...

Babies and infants love mathematics. Give babies a set of blocks, and they will build and order them, fascinated by the ways the edges line up. Children will look up at the sky and be delighted by the ...

“We are all good at speech, but disabled as readers and writers; the difference among us in reading/writing is simply that some are fairly easy to cure and some are not.” 2 Helping children learn to ...

In ancient times, teaching and learning were accomplished through apprenticeship: We taught our children how to speak, grow crops, craft cabinets, or tailor clothes by showing them how and by helping ...

School closures related to the coronavirus pandemic have impacted hundreds of thousands of U.S. public and private schools and affected millions of students. We know that many of our members have ...