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6 unusual facts about National Education Association


Braulio Alonso High School

He served on the board of directors in the National Education Association from 1958 to 1964, and was elected as its president in 1966.

Landmark Legal Foundation

The National Education Association has often been the subject of complaints to the IRS made by Landmark Legal.

Lucie Campbell

In 1946, she was named to the National Policy Planning Commission of the National Education Association.

Stumptown Kid

Included on the Kansas State Reading Circle 2005 Recommended Reading List.Listed in the Kansas National Education Association "Reading Circle Catalog.

Vietnam: The Ten Thousand Day War

The series was released on videocassette format by Embassy and won a National Education Association award for best world documentary.

Yupiit School District

In 2004, the Yupiit School District, the NEA-Alaska labor union, and several other school districts sued the state (Moore v. Alaska), asking for additional funding and educational programs.


Betty McCollum

In 2004, McCollum gained national visibility when she and fellow Democrat, Jim McDermott of Washington called for Secretary of Education Rod Paige to resign for claiming the National Education Association was "a terrorist organization."

Billie Orr

It is an alternative to Council of Chief State School Officers, a more liberal oriented organization with close ties to the teacher unions such as National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT).

Department for Professional Employees, AFL–CIO

Unions such as the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, American Federation of Government Employees, American Postal Workers Union, National Association of Letter Carriers, American Federation of Teachers, Service Employees International Union, National Education Association and American Nurses Association added hundreds of thousands of new members in only a few years.

Dinosaur Interplanetary Gazette

It was recommended by the National Education Association (NEA) along with only one other science site published by Bill Nye The Science Guy.


see also

George Fischer

George Drennen Fischer, American activist and spokesman for the National Education Association

John Stocks

John C. Stocks, Executive Director of National Education Association

Peter W. Dykema

Dykema was also active in the Music Teachers National Association and the National Education Association Department of Music Education.

T-groups

It was pioneered in the mid-1940s by Moreno's protege Kurt Lewin and his colleagues as a method of learning about human behavior in what became The National Training Laboratories (now NTL Institute of Behavioral Science) that was created by the Office of Naval Research and the National Education Association in Bethel, Maine, in 1947.