Special Reports from Education Week

Quality Counts is Education Week's annual report on state-level efforts to improve public education. Published in January.

Technology Counts is Education Week's annual 50-state report on educational technology.

An essential guide to graduation policy and rates. The annual report is supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Follow the latest developments on how the economic-stimulus package will affect school funding.

Read Education Week and Associated Press stories on how schools around the world are responding to the 2009 swine flu outbreak.

The most recent news from Education Week and the Associated Press on the global financial crisis and its impact on education in the United States and across the globe.

Follow Education Week's comprehensive coverage of all 2009 State of the State Addresses as the nation's governors outline their ideas on education and other legislative priorities.

A weekly series focusing on education-related scholarship. The section is supported by a grant from the Spencer Foundation.

This special collection includes Education Week and Associated Press reporting on a problem that is only sporadically recognized as a national issue: sexual misconduct by teachers.

A Nation at Risk: 25 Years Later
Education Week's yearlong occasional series about the report that has helped shape U.S. education policy over the past quarter-century.

A decade later, Education Week examines what schools, scholars, and parents have learned since the tragic killings at Columbine High School.

See Education Week's comprehensive coverage of the historic 2009 Presidential Inauguration. Includes blogs, video and multimedia content.

Education Week's coverage of the court's June 2007 decision against using race as a factor in assigning K-12 students to schools.

Many Native American communities in the United States are losing their indigenous languages. Edweek.org has pulled together a collection of articles exploring efforts to preserve them.

Education Week's collection of stories on the reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind Act.

Education Week's print and online-only coverage of the 2008 presidential campaign.

Education Week's ongoing coverage of the Bush administration's flagship reading program.

The Lost Years
Jordan and Syria have borne the weight of the exodus of more than 2 million Iraqis from their homeland. Education Week looks at the impact of a new policy in Jordan to open its public schools to Iraqi children regardless of their legal status in the country.

Two years after Hurricane Katrina, Education Week and edweek.org report on the progress and setbacks in the Crescent City. The project includes a series of articles in the newspaper and special Web-only material.

The mass slaying at the hands of a student gunman at Virginia Polytechnic Institute have revived vexing questions and raised familiar fears for K-12 educators across the country who grapple daily with ensuring the physical safety of their students and staff.

This series—launched in September 2004—examines the new approaches to leadership in education at a time of increasing academic expectations on schools.

A collection of Education Week stories on the federal Teacher-in-Space program.

Follow Education Week's print and online-only coverage of the 2007 state election campaigns to see where the major candidates stand on education.

This series examines education in China today, the classroom strategies at work in schools, and the strengths and weakness Chinese educators and others see in their education system.

An occasional series on high school reform.

Education Week's groundbreaking three-part 1998 series looks at educators' sexual misconduct with students, and state efforts to address the subject. See also Education Week's 2003 update to the series, "A Trust Betrayed: Update on Sexual Misconduct in Schools."

A three-part series that takes a close look at a handful of formative-assessment programs to provide a sense of what such measures look like in practice.

President Bush has won a second term in the White House in a hard-fought race with Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts. Below is a selection of key stories from our archives on Mr. Bush's record and initiatives in education policy.

The Education Week Research Center's annual progress report on the states' implementation of the federal law which has become implanted in the culture of America’s public education system.

This Education Week special report offers a detailed look at the leadership of governors in shaping their states' education agendas through legislation, regulatory action, public involvement, and proposal or endorsement of ballot measures.

This three-part series examines the obstacles to providing greater attention to teaching children foreign languages as well as innovative approaches to building students’ language skills.

This four-part series focuses on how K-12 education prepares students for their future with installments running monthly from March 2006 through June 2006.

Education Week's comprehensive coverage of the 2006 midterm elections.

Follow Education Week's collection of stories covering the effects of hurricane's Katrina and Rita on schools, districts, and states in the delta region.

In this three-part series, Education Week examines ways teachers' unions from districts and states around the nation work to shape education policy.

This series examines new and evolving approaches to professional development in education at a time of increased expectation on teachers to meet the "highly qualified" mandates of the No Child Left Behind Act.

Education Week delivers in-depth reporting on the debate over teaching intelligent design in the classroom.

Over the past few decades, Education Week has visited several countries to report on their education systems. Read our reports.

This occasional series, launched in January 2005, looks at the growing push to reform secondary education addressing issues from preventing dropouts to assessing graduation requirements.

This three-part series—running in installments on May 4, May 11, and May 18, 2005—examines the influx of immigrant students into six heartland states and the impact those students are having on public schools.

Education Week looks at the revamped SAT, set to debut in March 2005, and its effects on schools and students.

Brown at 50
Education Week's special coverage the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, the landmark 1954 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck down the doctrine of "separate but equal" in public education.

Education Week's two-part series takes a look at how districts are reforming in response to research demonstrating the positive role smaller school size plays in student learning.

Education Week found that officials are putting their faith in a select group of scholars, a small body of research, and a handful of commercial products to get the job done to improve student achievement in reading.

This three-part series examines the boom in the construction and renovation of K-12 schools and the continuing challenges that communities face in getting the facilities their students and educators need.

This four-part series examines the movement to make education research more "usable" and explores some efforts to connect the worlds of research and practice.

A series of articles from March and April 2003 addressing the influence of the Iraqi war on schools and students.

This Education Week series covers leadership issues in education—including governance, management, and labor relations.

For the 20th anniversary of A Nation at Risk, Education Week looks more closely at teenagers' views on what's wrong—and what's right— with the nation's public high schools.

Based on the responses of 800 registered voters nationwide, the Public Education Network and Education Week's April 2002 opinion poll found that, in spite of concerns about national security and the economy, Americans continue to place education and school funding issues among their top priorities.

In this two-part series, Education Week looks at the history of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act at the 25-year mark.


This series examines all aspects of the educational landscape--people, trends, historical milestones, enduring controversies—with an emphasis on their continuing relevance.

This is a five-part series about the nation's supply of and demand for qualified teachers.

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