Virginia Teacher’s Blogs Get National Following

By Edward Graham When teacher Ken Halla began his U.S. history blog five years ago, he would have been happy to see it get a few thousand page views each month. He had no reason to expect the blog would cultivate the national following it would soon have. In it’s first month, it racked up [...]

Why Are Colleges Handing Out Financial Aid to Wealthy Students?

By Mary Ellen Flannery It’s simple cause and effect: As state funding for public higher education has dropped over the past decades, student tuition has risen an almost equal amount. But where the equation gets more complicated is inside some college admissions offices, where “merit-based,” not need-based tuition aid, is increasingly directed to the wealthiest [...]

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 [...]

Virtual School Profits Far Exceeding Performance

By Edward Graham While proponents of for-profit virtual schools argue that cyber classrooms provide students with greater access to a high-quality education, a new report released by the National Education Policy Center (NEPC)—Virtual Schools in the U.S. 2013: Politics, Performance, Policy, and Research Evidence—finds that virtual schools often receive little to no oversight and seem [...]

Stemming the Flow of the School-to-Prison Pipeline

By Cindy Long There’s a disturbing trend taking place in our public schools, especially in high poverty neighborhoods – where hallways and grounds are patrolled by police and disciplinary problems are no longer handled by counseling and detention but by suspension and arrest. Known as the school-to-prison pipeline, the trend is turning our adolescent students [...]

Latino High School Graduates Overtake Whites in College Enrollment

By Tim Walker Latino students across the United States reached a milestone in 2012 as they surpassed their white counterparts in college enrollment. According to a new survey by the Pew Hispanic Center, a record seven-in-ten Hispanic 2012 high school graduates enrolled in college in the fall, slightly higher than white students. By comparison, in [...]

Six Ways the Common Core is Good For Students

By Cindy Long As the Common Core debate heats up, we’ve heard a lot from policy makers, politicians, and even TV talk show hosts about the challenges posed by the new standards and whether they’ll help or hurt education. With all the chatter, the voices of the professionals who are actually responsible for implementing the [...]

California Teacher’s Musical Headed to New York

By Helen Yoshida When she isn’t teaching Benita Scheckel, a choir and drama teacher at Blair School in Pasadena, CA, writes musicals. Her musical “Bend in the Road,” a 2013 Next Link Project based on L.M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables, will be performed at the tenth annual New York Musical Theatre Festival this July. [...]

Say Thanks to a School Nurse on May 8

By Helen Yoshida In honor of National School Nurse’s Day, NEA Today spoke to 2012 Missouri ESP of the Year Carmen K. Hill. Hill is a tireless and dedicated school nurse working in the St. Louis, Missouri public school system. What’s a typical day like for you? I get in here at 6:45am and by [...]

Celebrating Teacher Appreciation Week

By Anita Merina It’s Teacher Appreciation Week and around the country thousands of communities are taking time out to honor local educators and acknowledge the crucial role our nation’s teachers play in making sure every student receives a quality education. NEA Board members took to Capitol Hill last week to ask members of Congress last [...]

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