Abeigon urges COVID-19 tests for Newark’s students
John M. Abeigon, president of the Newark Teachers Union (Local 481), is calling for students in the city’s public…
Dates are set for AFT’s Share My Lesson Virtual Conference
The 2021 AFT Share My Lesson Virtual Conference is set for March 23-25. More than 30 webinars will be…
ACE workshop promotes diversity in higher education workforces
“Taking Action on Race and Ethnicity in Higher Education” is a two-part American Council on Education workshop for college…
AFT’s Share My Lesson staffers pick their 2020 favorites
Kelly Booz, Andy Kratochvil and other AFT Share My Lesson staff members talk about the resources, communities and authors…
What mattered to educators before the pandemic
About a month before America went into lockdown, Catherine Castillo of Springfield Public Schools in Missouri wrote about replacing…
Technology takeaways from 2020
Teacher-student interaction was much different than ever before, hybrid learning was the norm for a majority of school districts,…
Study dives into tech tools used by teachers in ’20
A LearnPlatform study involving more than 270,000 educators showed that 8,000 tech tools were used by teachers this year….
Biden taps Cardona to be education secretary
President-elect Joe Biden on Dec. 23 named former AFT member and longtime Connecticut educator Dr. Miguel A. Cardona as…
AFTNJ, Local 1766 call for Rutgers’ Newark, Camden libraries to close as COVID-19 cases climb
With COVID-19 cases rising across Newark and Camden, and with the potential of a post-Christmas spike in New Jersey, AFTNJ…
$57B earmarked for K-12 schools through new COVID-19 stimulus bill
As part of the $900 billion COVID-19 relief bill passed Dec. 21 by Congress, K-12 schools will receive close…
N.J.’s digital divide cut by more than half
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy said Dec. 21 that the state’s digital divide stands at 14,349, down 54 percent…
Rowan adjunct completes coronavirus course
In late spring, when Rowan University’s department of biological sciences offered adjunct professor EJ Karetny a special topics seminar…
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