NEA Mourns for Oklahoma in Wake of Tornado Tragedy

By Edward Graham A massive tornado ripped through Oklahoma yesterday afternoon, killing dozens of people and injuring hundreds more as it carved a 22-mile long path of destruction across parts of southern Oklahoma City and its surrounding suburbs. In the city of Moore, the almost two-mile wide twister heavily damaged Briarwood Elementary School and leveled [...]

Alternative Schools Raise Graduation Rates

By Edward Graham A record number of students graduated high school in the 2010-2011 school year – the highest estimated rate of graduation in the history of the department’s records — according to a recent US Department of Education report. The improved graduation rates have been buoyed not only by support from the Obama Administration [...]

New Resource Helps Educators Respond to Food Allergies

By Cindy Long It’s Halloween season, and little ghosts and goblins will soon be racing around school in their most frightening costumes. But what scares a lot of their educators is the danger lurking in some of the Halloween candy kids bring to school. Many contain ingredients like nuts that can cause anaphylaxis, a severe allergic reaction that [...]

Tapping the STEM Potential of Latinos

By Brenda Álvarez When it comes to innovations in the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields, the United States has had, over the past two centuries, the good fortune to be able to tap the brain power of its citizens—both native born and those who have immigrated here. Their invaluable contributions have sharpened America’s [...]

President Obama Salutes America’s Workers

By Amanda Litvinov President Obama celebrated Labor Day with thousands of working men and women in Toledo, Ohio, where union pride and support for workers’ rights were reinvigorated during last year’s historic citizens’ veto of legislation that threatened collective bargaining rights in the state. ‘This day belongs to the working men and women of America,” [...]

‘Right to Work’ Laws Increase Poverty, Decrease Productivity

By Darrell Minor, Columbus State Community College On February 1, 2012, Indiana governor Mitch Daniels signed a “right-to-work” (RTW) provision in the state’s labor laws, making Indiana the twenty-third RTW state in the nation and the first in more than a decade to pass a law undermining the ability of unions to organize and represent [...]

An un-dynamic duo: Romney announces Ryan as VP pick

By Amanda Litvinov High profile couplings often make one stop and wonder: What do these two see in each other? But there’s little mystery in the case of GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney and his vice presidential pick, Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan, which was announced earlier today. The two have a lot in common when [...]

NEA’s Health Information Network Tackles Prescription Drug Abuse

By Emma Chadband Before she turned 13, Jessica McDonald had already started abusing alcohol, marijuana, and Adderall — a prescription drug used to treat Attention Deficit Disorder. McDonald later became an addict, and racked up five DUI convictions while she was using Xanax, a prescription drug used to treat anxiety disorders, according to one Health [...]

Op-Ed By NEA’s Becky Pringle: Don’t Let Best Teachers Get Away

 School districts across the country are laying off teachers this summer — a pattern that has become an annual rite in some places where budgets are shrinking and enrollments are dropping. The result? When students return to school over the next few weeks, they’ll find some of the best teachers gone and some of the [...]

Advocates Raise Concerns on Looming ‘Sequester’ Cuts

Education advocates and the Obama administration are anxiously eyeing a series of across-the-board cuts set to hit a broad swath of spending programs early next year, unless a sharply divided Congress can agree on a long-term plan to put the nation’s fiscal house in order. Education groups have warned that cuts of that magnitude could [...]

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