Education Jobs Fund Passes Key Hurdle in House

By  Cynthia McCabe From Wisconsin to Washington, political leaders this week called on the U.S. House and Senate to act now and authorize funding that will save hundreds of thousands of educators jobs. Failure to do so, President Obama and governors from across the country said, would be to risk the fragile economic recovery they’re [...]

Laid-off Oklahoma Teacher to Congress: ‘Our Kids Need Your Help’

By Brian Washington Mitzi Ridinger, a teacher from Sallisaw, Okla., has joined the ranks of National Education Association members from Indiana, Illinois, North Carolina and California — who have all received pink slips — in urging their members of Congress to pass the Education Jobs Fund. Ridinger, a pre-K teacher at Greasy Elementary School located [...]

Must Reads – California Budget Woes

The number of schools districts in California that are “unable to meet future financial obligations” has increased by 38% since the start of 2010. The most immediate result has been teacher layoffs. Source: Los Angeles Times

Must Reads – Native American and Alaska Native Students

A new study on American Indian and Alaska Native education has found that average reading and math scores have remained flat. The study also discovered that only 57% of Native American or Alaska Native 8th graders plan to attend college full time. Source: Education Week.

NEA Student Program Members Elect New President

Nearly 100 student delegates to NEA’s Representative Assembly in New Orleans on Monday elected their new board of directors. Pictured left to right: Chair, Tommie Leaders (Nebraska), Katie Kreis (Illinois), Ashley Rogers (Virginia), and Brandan Trahan (Louisiana). Jermaine Coleman, outgoing chair of the NEA Student Program, is pictured at left with Leaders, an elementary education major at the [...]

NEA Volunteers Give Louisiana High School Extreme Makeover

By Amanda Litvinov Outreach to Teach, NEA’s annual school repair project, is always a meaningful affair. But there was something singularly special about this year’s effort to repair and beautify Belle Chasse High School, in Belle Chasse, Louisiana, one of the many communities outside of New Orleans forever changed in 2005 by Hurricane Katrina. “It [...]

Ahead in Ed – July 2

The New York City Department of Education will decide which schools will be a part of a pilot program to pay some teachers bonuses of up to 30% of their salaries for helping students in struggling schools make progress.

Must Reads – Cyberbullying

Educators and school administrators are struggling to find ways to discipline cyberbullying. Most incidences occur outside of school on student’s home computers and personal cell phones, which schools have little authority over. Source: New York Times

Must Reads – What Is Student Achievement?

In her blog post about a new study that found the D.C. voucher program did not help raise student achievement, Washington Post’s Valerie Strauss examined how we define student achievement. “It doesn’t much matter if a public school manages to help more kids graduate, or read better, or read at all; if the test scores [...]

U.S. Soccer Players Score Big for Public School Students

By Collin Berglund The U.S. team may be out of World Cup contention, but members of Major League Soccer teams from around the country are beloved no less by schoolchildren from Salt Lake City to Los Angeles. Why? Because the athletes are better known to the kids for participating in NEA’s Read Across America program [...]

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