'A Year of Tremendous Growth.' How the Pandemic Forced Teachers to Master Technology
Educators nationwide say their ability to use technology for instruction improved significantly during the pandemic.| Education Week
Educators nationwide say their ability to use technology for instruction improved significantly during the pandemic.| Education Week
Less than a quarter of students said that their teachers make an effort to understand what their life is like outside of school.| Education Week
An analysis of EdWeek Research Center survey data found gaps in teachers' English-learner training.| Education Week
National Professional Development grants help school districts serving English learners get support for teacher training and credentialing.| Education Week
EdWeek Research Center survey data on teacher morale found English-as-as-second-language teachers seeking specific PD for morale.| Education Week
More than 200 ongoing projects have seen their remaining grant funding canceled in recent weeks.| Education Week
The administration wants to cut roughly $7 billion in annual K-12 funding. Much of it supports vulnerable students.| Education Week
The U.S. Department of Education announced Tuesday it was getting rid of nearly half its staff through a variety of measures.| Education Week
The Trump administration has cut funding for some English learner PD grants, sparking confusion and prompting appeals.| Education Week
School districts are reacting to state laws that dictate the kinds of books school libraries can have, leading to book bans, report finds.| Education Week
The separate collection is a response to states with laws restricting learning materials on race, gender, and sexuality.| Education Week
As book bans continue to increase in 2023, experts say it’s crucial for educators, parents, and students to fight bans in their districts.| Education Week
Amanda Jones lost her legal battle against online harassers this week but vows to continue to press her case.| Education Week
Stock classrooms with books that reflect students’ lives, languages, and cultures and invite them into as yet unfamiliar worlds.| Education Week
More 12th graders than ever before are scoring below the test's threshold for mastery of “basic” skills.| Education Week
School choice advocates—and detractors—see a second Trump term as the biggest opportunity in decades for choice at the federal level.| Education Week
Pro-school choice initiatives failed in Colorado, Kentucky, and Nebraska.| Education Week
A third of 8th graders and 40 percent of 4th graders did not meet a "basic" reading level.| Education Week
As legal protections remain for immigrant students, experts share what educators can do in the wake of federal immigration policy changes.| Education Week
A federal appeals court upholds an injunction against an Arizona law, allowing two transgender girls to compete on female teams.| Education Week
Equipping teachers to help transgender students feel safe and included requires special training, advocates say.| Education Week
There's a body of research that points to a number of benefits when students feel close to people at school.| Education Week
The law bans schools from passing policies that require notifying parents if their child asks to change their gender identification.| Education Week
Lawmakers this year proposed 137 bills restricting lessons and training about racism and gender identity, a 250 percent increase since 2021.| Education Week
How teachers explain tricky math and science concepts can affect students' motivation in their STEM classes.| Education Week
It's not just about motivation—it's about providing supports for kids to study STEM subjects.| Education Week
Encouragement from adults—like teachers, school counselors, and parents—is crucial for motivating students in STEM.| Education Week
Teachers can expose their students to the STEM subjects in small ways throughout the school day.| Education Week
Nearly a quarter of the cellphone notifications students receive each day come during school hours, new report shows.| Education Week
New survey data show that schools are trying a variety of approaches to curb students’ cellphone use.| Education Week
The law requires parental consent for social media platforms to send notifications to minors during the school day.| Education Week
Students' stress over learning a new language in a new environment can affect their academic success. Proper support can ease that.| Education Week
Teaching English learners can be challenging. These veterans offer guidance.| Education Week
New state policies to restrict cellphone use in schools are driven by bipartisan support.| Education Week
Education Week tracked K-12 school shootings in 2023 with injuries or deaths. See the number of incidents and where they occurred.| Education Week
Building stamina—the attention span and endurance to read texts for sustained periods—is critical to support reading comprehension.| Education Week
The Education Department's six new proposed funding priorities would affect competitive grants.| Education Week
Digital citizenship lessons and parent communication can help blunt the impact of destructive TikTok challenges.| Education Week
Nearly 100 school districts have filed lawsuits against JUUL and other e-cigarette manufacturers, and more are likely to join in to claim that schools are the de facto "first responders" to the epidemic of youth vaping.| Education Week
States are suing Meta, the company behind Facebook and Instagram, saying the social media giant harms children’s mental health.| Education Week
Some 4th and 12th grade tests won't proceed as planned, following sweeping cuts to the U.S. Department of Education research arm last month.| Education Week
Data from several states show most voucher and education savings account recipients aren't leaving public schools for private alternatives.| Education Week
If school district leaders changed their mindset about the concept of sharing power, students would be among the beneficiaries.| Education Week
The state law passed after the Parkland massacre calls for a new “integrated data repository” that’s raising questions about privacy and civil liberties.| Education Week
Florida’s efforts to expand digital surveillance of students in the name of school safety have been delayed amid privacy concerns, legal questions, and bureaucratic snafus, an Education Week investigation found.| Education Week
Details revealed by the state commission investigating the shooting fit in with a larger pattern in which officials from law enforcement, mental health agencies, and schools appear to have missed possible warning signs related to Cruz.| Education Week
The administration issued notices saying undocumented immigrants don't qualify for Head Start and some Education Department programs.| Education Week
Past and present research studies found broad implications of immigration enforcement on students' school attendance.| Education Week
Experts say there are steps schools can take to proactively address mental health concerns stemming from ramped-up immigration enforcement.| Education Week
Illinois lawmakers passed a bill locally codifying the 1982 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Plyler v. Doe.| Education Week
Critical thinking is a thing. We can define it; we can teach it; and we can assess it.| Education Week
Some educators argue that state tests don't do much more than evaluate students' ability to perform under pressure.| Education Week
2015's Every Student Succeeds Act rolls back much of the federal government's big footprint in education policy.| Education Week
A provision in the Every Student Succeeds Act allows the secretary of education to waive certain state requirements.| Education Week
Out-of-school learning is often more meaningful than anything that happens in a classroom. Kevin Bushweller tackles the relevance gap.| Education Week
North Dakota is requiring all students to study either cybersecurity or computer science content to graduate.| Education Week
Schools work on meeting academic standards. What happens when they focus on different sets of skills?| Education Week
Tammie Jo Shults put into action a lifetime of learning—in and out of school—when Southwest flight 1380 blew an engine at 32,000 feet.| Education Week
It can be hard to pin down what kinds of teaching and curriculum fall into the category of social-emotional learning.| Education Week
Employers are putting a premium on soft-skills—like attention to detail—that aren't always easy to capture or measure.| Education Week
Teachers, parents, and school leaders have a role in fostering student empathy, particularly when children are very young, writes Jessica Sager.| Education Week
This downloadable has strategies for creating social-emotional learning experiences that won't cause teenagers to roll their eyes.| Education Week
Collaboration, empathy, social awareness, and relationship building are some of the same skills that power democracy.| Education Week
Districts that purchased devices for hybrid and remote learning will have to determine how to use them for in-person instruction.| Education Week
One of the giants of the literacy world is grappling with the recent push for the "science of reading"—and responding to critics.| Education Week
EdReports, the nonprofit curriculum reviewer, released its first reviews of foundational reading and writing skills programs—and all five of the materials assessed failed to reach the evaluator's highest standard.| Education Week
Here’s how to start planning now for taking care of yourself this school year, from a former teacher.| Education Week
A growing number of schools are implementing stringent cellphone policies. But how many include smartwatches?| Education Week
Educators are reporting a surge in the number of kindergartners coming to school unable to regulate their emotions. What's going on?| Education Week
Explore options for building a calendar, choosing a schedule, and deploying teachers and staff to maximize student learning safely.| Education Week
Halting erosion to learning is critical as the new school year begins. Well-known practices backed by research are the best solution.| Education Week
As an uncertain school year looms, some parents are banding together to teach their children in private pods. Educators worry that the trend will worsen inequities and shrink funding for public schools.| Education Week
Former Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam announced the Tennessee Tutoring Corps, which will recruit college students to tutor children in an effort to prevent learning loss after extended school closures.| Education Week
But local efforts can put communities in a stronger position to respond to them, a school health expert says.| Education Week
Does the presence of armed officers prevent school violence? Do they contribute for Black children to the 'school to prison pipeline'?| Education Week
A new review claims that the curriculum has gaps in its alignment to reading research, and doesn't offer enough supports for teachers.| Education Week
A program in Connecticut sent school employees to families' homes to address absenteeism's root causes.| Education Week
Research says everything from asthma to teacher-student relationships move the needle on school attendance.| Education Week
Absenteeism is still a crisis, but new state data show modest progress.| Education Week
A new advertising campaign in six cities aims to dispel parents' perceptions that their kids are performing at grade level.| Education Week
Want to know if a K-2 classroom is using explicit, systematic phonics or balanced literacy? Explore the main instructional differences.| Education Week
Learning how to decode words is essential to becoming a reader. But research shows that building a strong vocabulary and knowledge-base is crucial as well.| Education Week
New survey data from Education Week show that most K-2 teachers and education professors are using instructional methods that run counter to the cognitive science.| Education Week
Recent studies raise some hard questions about the value of ability-based reading groups.| Education Week
Download data from Education Week showing how over 900 school districts provided instruction on their first day of the 2020-21 school year.| Education Week
$890 million in Title III grants moved to the federal office of English language acquisition in December.| Education Week
The office of English language acquisition will once again manage Title III formula grant funds.| Education Week
There’s so much bad advice about teaching that it can be hard to choose the worst. These teachers tried anyway.| Education Week
Need help with using AI in the classroom? How about teaching students to write? Or fostering relationships? Plenty is available here.| Education Week
What is restorative justice, and how can it be implemented in schools?| Education Week
One of the upshots of issuing lame orders is breaking the trust of teachers, which may never be regained.| Education Week
A new report maps the shifting reading curriculum market.| Education Week
The American Civil Liberties Union sees interest spike in its student advocacy institute, while conservative groups have their own programs.| Education Week
Making computer science classes a graduation requirement can be a powerful strategy.| Education Week
Preventive services must be rooted in what we know to be true about suicide, writes school psychology professor Marisa E. Marraccini.| Education Week
New neuroscience research suggests exercise can buffer adolescents against social-emotional damage from distancing.| Education Week
A study finds that the severity of identified child abuse cases grew during the pandemic, even as reports of abuse declined.| Education Week
Seventy-six percent of teachers had had no formal training on the subject—even as kids clamor for more information and school days get hotter.| Education Week
Listen to a conversation about how educators can approach teaching about climate change.| Education Week
Two popular programs that offered classroom resources for math and science teachers have lost their federal funding.| Education Week
