Randi Weingarten
By Randi Weingarten
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Sponsored The essentials for a better life for all
This moment can be viewed through the lens of fear or hope; despair or aspiration; self-interest or the greater good.
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Sponsored Children under fire
We must end this uniquely American epidemic: the toxic combination of guns and hate.
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Sponsored America’s Silent Epidemic
School staff often are first responders to students’ mental health needs.
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Community When crisis strikes, teachers are there
It will surprise absolutely no one that I love being in schools. Since April 2021, I have visited more than 100 schools across the country, seeing how students and staff are overcoming the challenges created by the pandemic, and talking to them about what they need to recover and thrive. Recently, I went home, so…
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Sponsored Ukraine’s iron will against Putin’s barbarism
Ukraine has always loomed large in my life. My grandfather fled near-certain death from the pogroms that massacred Jews in Ukraine early in the last century, and he was able to bring most of his and my grandmother’s family from western Ukraine to America. Many Jews who survived those pogroms later perished in the massacre…
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Sponsored Choosing aspiration over anger
If there is one place where you can see the herculean lift of real-time recovery from the effects of the pandemic, it’s in our nation’s public schools. Every day, teachers and school staff are working with students to overcome challenges, accelerate learning, and bounce back from disruption and anxiety. Educators and mental health professionals are…
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Sponsored What it takes to be back in school—and stay back
Small things sometimes have an outsized impact. That has struck me as I’ve visited with students and staff in public schools in recent weeks, particularly since the surge of the omicron variant. Ordinary activities—pre-K children playing side by side, students working on a group project, a teacher guiding students through a lesson on conflict resolution,…
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Sponsored Reading opens the world
Several years ago, I participated in a book giveaway in McDowell County, W.Va., one of the poorest counties in the U.S. I offered a book to a boy who immediately clutched it to his chest, grinned and said, “I’m going straight home to put this in my library.” I asked him what other books he…
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