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Teacher tenure serves the cause of progress

September 14, 2015 By Len Yannielli

Tenure has played an important role in protecting educators when participating in their workplaces and communities.

Seattle teacher’s strike solid on day four

September 11, 2015 By Tim Wheeler

Five thousand Seattle school teachers spent the day honoring those who died in the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attack.

Fight over Dyett High reaches tense new stage

September 4, 2015 By Patrick J. Foote

CPS has announced a plan for Dyett, but not the one fought for by the hunger striking community members.

American Federation of Teachers endorses Hillary Clinton

July 14, 2015 By Mark Gruenberg

Weingarten put the union's endorsement in the context of scrapping the Bush-era No Child Left Behind and its teach-to-the-test penalizing of students and schools.

Education: is it job training, or preparation for democracy?

July 9, 2015 By Daniel Sankey

If we want our nation to create more people like history's innovators and inventors, we would be wise to teach our children how to think like they did.