Recent gains in teacher pay have helped many districts address teacher retention. But salaries need to improve more to help attract new educators. Major salary increases in Charleston, South Carolina ...

Not too long ago, many educators who complained of burnout were probably greeted with a collective shrug from school leaders. Teacher exhaustion or stress have often been dismissed as signs of ...

Becky Pringle is president of the National Education Association, the nation’s largest labor union. Becky is a middle school science teacher with more than three decades of classroom experience and ...

Specialized Instructional Support Personnel (SISP)—also known as non-classroom educators—work with teachers, school support staff, parents, community members, and other education stakeholders to help ...

The purpose of the NEA ESP National conference is to grow and strengthen the professional excellence of ESP members working in Pre-K to Higher-Ed through Association-convened, educator-led, and ...

When the Individual with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) was enacted, Congress committed to fund 40 percent of the average per pupil cost for special education. A half-century later, students who ...

The highest paid professor in the U.S. is likely a man, at a research university, who teaches medicine or engineering. It’s definitely not a woman, at a historically Black college, teaching education.

Being exposed to the traumas students bring into school every day can exact an emotional and physical toll on teachers and other educators. Research suggests that compassion fatigue and secondary ...

Implicit bias can lead to students with disabilities to be misidentified and misplaced. Four key factors in special education have shown to harm students of color with disabilities at higher rates.

A growing number of educators believe equity and inclusion in the classroom begins with honoring—and therefore correctly pronouncing—students' names. Teachers will inevitably find some names hard to ...

According to the latest NEA data, teacher salaries continue to increase, but they have not kept pace with inflation over the past decade, leaving many educators financially worse off. As educator ...