Thirteen issues of the National Education Association (NEA) newsletter highlight the following: (1) Bork, Supreme Court nomination and NEA affiliate win on pay bias suit; (2) NEA presidential endorsements; (3) TIAA-CREF (Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association and College Retirement Equities Fund) response to critics held inadequate; (4) NEA challenge of Bennett's interference with accreditation, and saving minds; (5) Bell memoir detailing right-wing attacks on Department of Education; (6) the 1988 federal budget: higher education aid increases, and NEA and the community colleges; (7) Cisneros keynoting NEA higher education conference, and equity for Texas higher education; (8) freedom of information: in jeopardy, and academic freedom; (9) NEA part-time faculty report issued at higher education meeting, and part-time faculty; (10) Congress passing NEA-supported Civil Rights Restoration Act; (11) NEA higher education panel on sexual harassment; (12) NEA-backed coalition gains TIAA-CREF transfer rights, and Vermont issues and (13) learning labs plan highlights 1988 NEA Representative Assembly (RA), and RA elects at-large director. (SM)