National Education Association | NEA
NEA has affiliate organizations in every state and in more than 14,000 communities across the United States. The National Education Association (NEA) is more than 3 million people—educators, students, activists, workers, parents, neighbors, friends—who believe in opportunity for all students and in the power of public education to transform ...
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Code of Ethics for Educators | NEA
Sep 14, 2020 · 1. Shall not unreasonably restrain the student from independent action in the pursuit of learning. 2. Shall not unreasonably deny the student's access to varying points of view. 3. Shall not deliberately suppress or distort subject matter relevant to the student's progress. 4.
Teacher Appreciation Week | NEA - National Education Association
Celebrate Teacher Appreciation Week and show public school educators just how much we support, respect, and admire them, by sharing a story of an extraordinary educator, a terrific teacher, or a committed colleague who gives their best to their students every day. Submit a story! Educators, you are leading the way.
Benefits of Collaboration | NEA - National Education Association
Oct 18, 2018 · Collaboration provides a safety net; it helps you catapult your thinking and develop ideas that may seem crazy at first. Working with a small group of trusted teachers gave me the opportunity to turn what I thought was a silly idea at the time into a unique and creative lesson plan. When it was time for my class to study Elizabethan England, I ...
10 Challenges Facing Public Education Today | NEA
Aug 3, 2018 · 10 Challenges Facing Public Education Today. The bad news is that the demands and pressures on our schools are growing. The good news is that the nation is finally looking to educators for solutions. By: Brenda Álvarez, Tim Walker, Cindy Long, Amanda Litvinov, NEA staff writers. Published: August 3, 2018. First Appeared In NEA Today August 2018.
History of Standardized Testing in the United States | NEA
Jun 25, 2020 · Stanford Professor Lewis Terman marks the beginning of large-scale individual intelligence testing in characteristics of the Binet-Simon tradition. The National Education Association endorses the kind of standardized testing that Rice had been urging for two decades. The timing was exquisite: on one front, there was the “push” of new ...
Educator Pay Data 2024 | NEA - National Education Association
Apr 18, 2024 · The national average public school teacher salary in 2022-23 increased 4.2% from the previous year to $69,597 and is projected to grow a further 3.2% in 2023-24. However, even with record-level increases in some states, average teacher pay has failed to keep up with inflation over the past decade. Adjusted for inflation, on average, teachers ...
The Great Cursive Writing Debate | NEA
Feb 4, 2022 · Cursive is like calligraphy--good to teach in art class, harmful to force for all assignments. Debbie McCleskey Baker. Some benefits of cursive: 1) it trains the brain to learn functional specialization, 2) it improves memory, 3) it improves fine motors skills, meaning that students who have illegible print, often have legible cursive ...
Teacher Salary Benchmarks | NEA
Published: April 26, 2022. The average starting teacher salary for 2020-2021 was $41,770, an increase of 1.4% over 2019-2020. When adjusted for inflation, this represents a 4% decrease from 2019-2020, undoing all the gains made over the previous two years. Fueled by Red for Ed, starting salaries had nearly caught up to inflation after ...