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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.
In this issue, we examine challenges facing education today, "hygge" in the classroom, the cost of education funding cuts, and some big educator organizing wins across the country.
In this issue, read the stories of some NEA-Retired members who are achieving their retirement goals and more, be inspired by a 92-year-old educator still finding ways to teach and motivate, and find out how retirees are affected the new tax law.
In this issue we document the student-led March for Our Lives against gun violence in our schools. Also, three math teachers offer solutions to school funding problems, and we look at creative ways—design thinking, flipped classrooms—for engaging students.
In this issue, we look at what drove educators to create and join the #RedforEd movement. We offer ideas on how teachers can help students discuss big issues like gun laws, sex, and slavery. And we ask if our schools are prepared to tackle student mental health.
A look at how educators are keeping their boats afloat, NEA-Retired members discuss successfully volunteering, and a look at how items donated by retired educators helps active educators create inviting spaces.
Meet 30 young educators who—early in their careers—are building networks of support, growing their skillset, and raising their voices as leaders. We also share back-to-school tips for creating a successful school year and look at six new educator programs from around the country that support new and early career teachers.
Including a story on why so many teachers and paraprofessionals work nights and weekends, how teachers in California are leading the fight for regulations to restrict pesticide sprays, an interview with an anti-racist educator, combatting sexual assault in schools, and more.
In this issue we look at what rural schools—and the 9 million students they serve—stand to lose from the Trump-DeVos privatization agenda. Plus, visit a Georgia community school, meet the next generation of educators, and read how a superb paraeducator-teacher team make it work.
A look at how educators are helping students with undocumented parents, how a strong sense of community can help to keep students safe, and the importance of mentors to new teachers.
This issue of NEA Today magazine discusses the impact of the 2016 elections on education, and includes features on teaching about climate change, design trends in schools, homeless students, and civics education.
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