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More federal and state policymakers are focusing on addressing data privacy, especially for children, because of increasing concerns about how companies collect and sell...
Leaders
What will professional development for educators look like in 10 years? Will it continue to be a top-down, one-size-fits-all annual training that all teachers...
Teaching
Earth Day is April 22 in the United States and the day the spring equinox occurs in some parts of the world. It’s a...
Academies
A two-year hiatus from Progress 8 should be used to “rethink performance tables”, school leaders have said. But some warned we could now see...
Teaching
Problems in the classroom can make up an ever-growing list. Since the pandemic, many teachers have reported a sharp uptick when it comes to...
Teaching
I’m in the middle of giving a lesson about the Cold War to my 7th grade class when a student returns from the restroom,...
Teaching
Call it a seven-year itch: After a couple of years in the classroom, teachers’ morale slumps for a few years before rebounding later in...
Academies
There will be no progress 8 replacement for the next two years due to the lack of SATs data from the pandemic, government has...
Academies
When the secretary of state for education herself describes the special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) system as ‘lose, lose, lose’, no one can...
Academies
Look through the pages of Schools Week and you will find no shortage of people calling out a crisis in school funding. This week,...
News
Last Monday, it was forgiving student loans. This week, it was calling for tariffs on Chinese steel. Soon, President Biden is expected to protect...
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The 100-year-old annual honors convocation at the University of Michigan is typically a decorous affair, with a pipe organ accompanying golf-clap applause. This year’s...
News
A Pennsylvania school board canceled an anti-bullying speech by the actor Maulik Pancholy, who is gay, after board members raised concerns about his “lifestyle,”...
Teaching
Teachers need more support to move testing from a “necessary evil” to a classroom tool, experts say. While summative tests—like unit quizzes or annual...
Policy
In a case followed closely in the education community, the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that employees challenging a transfer under the main...
Teaching
California schools can, for now, continue using a looser approach to how reading is taught to young children after a bill to mandate a...
Policy
Tyler Hansford served as superintendent of the Union school district in Mississippi from 2018 to 2022. Year after year, the 1,000-student district received half...
Teaching
In 2013, a national panel of education experts called for U.S. states and districts to move away from a focus on testing primarily for...
Teaching
Editor’s Note: Late last year, Education Week Opinion began speaking with Michigan teacher Mercedes Harvey-Flowers about her desire to offer a safe space to...
News
President Biden jumped into a debate about gender and sports this week, calling for pay equity for women athletes after Caitlin Clark, the University...
Leaders
School shootings had happened before the fateful 1999 massacre at Columbine High School. But it quickly became clear that the tragic event, in which...
Policy
In a case followed closely in the education community, the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that employees challenging a transfer under the main...
Policy
Tyler Hansford served as superintendent of the Union school district in Mississippi from 2018 to 2022. Year after year, the 1,000-student district received half...
Policy
Time is running out for school districts to spend their remaining federal COVID-relief dollars—unless districts successfully get approval to take a little longer. Districts...
Leaders
School shootings had happened before the fateful 1999 massacre at Columbine High School. But it quickly became clear that the tragic event, in which...
Leaders
A Final Note From Angela The partnership between Character Lab and Education Week commenced in April 2020 in the early days of the pandemic....
Leaders
The biggest barrier schools face in putting social-emotional learning curriculum in place is an age-old foe: time. A lack of funding and support from...
News
The 100-year-old annual honors convocation at the University of Michigan is typically a decorous affair, with a pipe organ accompanying golf-clap applause. This year’s...
News
A Pennsylvania school board canceled an anti-bullying speech by the actor Maulik Pancholy, who is gay, after board members raised concerns about his “lifestyle,”...
Teaching
Teachers need more support to move testing from a “necessary evil” to a classroom tool, experts say. While summative tests—like unit quizzes or annual...