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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...
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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,”...
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...
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
Look through the pages of Schools Week and you will find no shortage of people calling out a crisis in school funding. This week,...
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...
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...
Academies
The High Court this week dismissed a claim from a pupil at Michaela Community School who had challenged a policy that restricted prayer rituals...
Academies
Ofsted said a “notable” number of schools are still not meeting the legal requirement to teach religious education to all pupils, and has told government...
Academies
Government must revamp the national funding formula (NFF) to allow schools to provide the education “society expects”, the body representing England’s academy trusts has...
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...
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...
Teaching
What are the odds that a class of 2nd graders filled out a better March Madness bracket than you? Surprisingly good, actually. Like more...
Technology
Artificial intelligence tools can produce an essay on the migratory patterns of waterfowl or President Barack Obama’s K-12 education agenda in seconds—but the work...
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....
News
Last spring, Tia Washington, 52, a mother of three in Dublin, Calif., received a stern warning from her doctor: If she didn’t quickly gain...
News
As the Israel-Hamas war has escalated, many universities have been caught in an often vitriolic debate over how to handle pro-Palestinian student protests. Many...
Technology
Even though it’s been a year and a half since ChatGPT was released, making terms like “generative AI” a mainstay in education conversations, most...
Technology
Lessons in artificial intelligence literacy shouldn’t be confined to just high school computer science classes. They should be spread across all content areas and...
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...
Policy
The recent criminal convictions of the parents of the student who killed four students at Oxford High School in Michigan in 2021 were groundbreaking—the...
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
President Biden jumped into a debate about gender and sports this week, calling for pay equity for women athletes after Caitlin Clark, the University...
Teaching
What are the odds that a class of 2nd graders filled out a better March Madness bracket than you? Surprisingly good, actually. Like more...
Technology
Artificial intelligence tools can produce an essay on the migratory patterns of waterfowl or President Barack Obama’s K-12 education agenda in seconds—but the work...