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NEA Today Past Issues
NEA Today Past Issues
NEA publishes NEA Today, NEA Today for Aspiring Educators, and NEA Today for Retired Members, magazines focused on the issues and interests of K-12, aspiring, and retired educators. Browse our archives.
Find NEA's coronavirus response and resources in our special section, plus ways NEA members are teaming up with parents and community members on issues that benefit students, educators, and communities.
In this issue, discover the ways your union can serve as a support system and meet aspiring educators who are organizing on college campuses. Plus, find short-and-sweet explainers to help you navigate your transition from student life to the professional world.
In this issue: As suicide among young people reaches epidemic proportions, educators on the front lines are learning how to answer the cry for help. Topics also covered include privatization of school staff and educator salaries.
This issue examines how racism's stubborn roots in public schools affect you and your students and offers some ways forward toward a more equitable society.
In this issue we examine how educators' growing frustration over low pay has fueled #RedForEd—a nationwide movement that demands professional pay for professional work. We visit a trauma-informed classroom, and talk to educators who have suffered physical assaults at school to find out what they're doing about it.
In this issue we examine how educators' growing frustration over low pay has fueled #RedForEd—a nationwide movement that demands professional pay for professional work. We visit a trauma-informed classroom, and talk to educators who have suffered physical assaults at school to find out what they're doing about it.
Many claimed the Supreme Court ruling in Janus v. AFSCME would devastate labor. Instead, the union is growing. Plus, our favorite rally signs from the past year, the #RedforEd movement, and the benefits of union membership for substitute educators.
In this issue, we meet children who are U.S. citizens living in Mexico who cross the border daily to reach schools in New Mexico and a quality education. We travel with Teachers of the Year to the border for a teach-in to call for the separation of families. We tell the stories of educators who share why they stay in the profession. We look at the cost of corporate subsidies to public schools. And, we hear from educators on why they joined the union.
This issue covers the effects of the opioid crisis in our schools and communities. We also talk to NEA-Retired members for a look at how their downsizing and changing their lives. Plus, read some tips on becoming a blogger.
What motivates educators to stay in the profession? We talk to veteran and aspiring educators on what drives them. Plus, how the nationwide #MeToo movement has prompted important questions in the nation’s public schools.
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