The State of Teaching

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  • Resilience, resourcefulness, and adaptability: These three skills are arguably the most indispensable to teachers in 2025.

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    As Education Week’s annual project—The State of Teaching—reveals, America’s teachers are showing stamina and grit amid stagnant levels of student learning and achievement and a rapidly changing educational and political environment.

    This year’s project—our second edition—is built on an exclusive, nationally representative survey of America’s K-12 teacher workforce by the EdWeek Research Center and on-the-ground reporting in classrooms from EdWeek journalists. We’ve expanded the scope of our research in Year 2 to provide deeper insights into teachers’ attitudes and experiences, including a state-by-state look at teacher morale.

    But our mission remains the same: to enhance the understanding of a critical workforce of 3 million educators through rigorous reporting and analysis of rich data that can inform innovative and effective solutions to empower this essential profession.













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