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 ...

NEA Higher Ed members are sitting on mountains of data that they assembled through federally funded research but are now cut off before sharing the findings that U.S. taxpayers paid for. Their topics ...

According to the National Education Association's annual report on teacher salaries, educators are seeing long-overdue pay increases. The average starting teacher salary in 2023-24 was $46,526, ...

The Trump administration has cut the workforce of the Department of Education by 50 percent since January. The massive staff reductions have eliminated all or nearly all employees in certain offices, ...

As you discuss the impact of funding cuts on individuals, especially students with disabilities and lower-income families, you will want to focus on cuts to programs like Pell Grants and Two- and Four ...

On election day, voters in Nebraska, Colorado, and Kentucky delivered a stunning rebuke to school vouchers. A diverse coalition of educators, parents, and community members in each state mobilized to ...

Between 2012 and 2024, the number of unionized faculty grew by 7.5 percent. During that same time, the number of grad-student employees in unions grew even faster, by 133 percent. A key issue for ...

The New Hampshire state law had resulted in teachers self-censoring their lessons of any reference to race or gender, afraid to cross an invisible line in their classrooms. They didn't know what they ...

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.

It's a golden age of nonfiction books for younger readers. Many students prefer reading nonfiction and should have more access to those books. Educators should offer fiction and nonfiction titles to ...

Faculty, staff, and students have roughly equivalent rates of depression, anxiety, and stress. In-house, on-campus mental-health supports are key to assisting employees, but they're not everything.

NEA has teamed up with a non-profit co-founded by Nobel Peace Prize winner Prof. Yunus to provide free lesson plans. The program empowers teachers to educate the next generation about our environment ...