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College & Workforce Readiness More States Require Personal Finance. But Does It Actually Work?
Personal finance education can influence behavior positively with specific strategies.
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Early Childhood More Principals Now Lead Preschools. But Are They Ready for It?
Strong efforts to train principals in early-childhood education are still scattered and scarce.
Olina Banerji
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Teaching Opinion If You Don't See Value in an Assignment, Your Students Won't, Either
From reading to decisionmaking, educators offer ideas on how best to encourage learning.
Larry Ferlazzo
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Social Studies Opinion Why I Use a Business School Model to Teach History
Students who can see themselves in historical figures learn how to debate respectfully.
Maureen O'Hern
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Group of students walking into an illustration of the convention of 1787 in Philadelphia. They will use the case method to understand the context more deeply.
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College & Workforce Readiness Schools Are Expanding Career Ed. Are They Guiding Students to the Right Careers?
Counselor shortages are a barrier keeping schools from implementing relevant and effective career prep.
Caitlynn Peetz Stephens
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5 min read
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School counselors Kendall Gray, left, and Gala Davis catch up and talk in Davis' office at South Oak Cliff High School in Dallas on March 6, 2025. A new report recommends that disconnect exists between career options presented to students and their interests, argues a new report.
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Reading & Literacy Is It Time for Another National Reading Panel?
The panel's 2000 report on reading has influenced policy for years. Now, Congress is calling for an update.
Sarah Schwartz
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7 min read
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A copy of one of the National Reading Panel's work products is shown in this June 17, 2026 photo. The influential report, now more than 25 years old, has long served as a cornerstone of the “science of reading” movement, shaping state legislation, curriculum, and teacher professional development.
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Teaching Profession How These Schools Use Teams to Cut Teacher Workloads
California teachers in the co-teaching pilot are reporting higher morale.
Sarah D. Sparks
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4 min read
As districts nationwide experiment with strategic staffing—an attempt to use teachers’ time in different ways to free up collaboration and reduce class size. Strategic staffing—in which schools give schedule flexibility and sometimes differentiated pay for teams of classroom educators—has gained ground in many states as a way to provide more professional development for young teachers and retain educators longer. PICTURED, Students at Whittier Elementary School work in groups and independently, Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2022 in Mesa, Ariz.
Strategic staffing—in which schools give schedule flexibility and sometimes differentiated pay for teams of classroom educators—has gained ground in many states as a way to provide more professional development for young teachers and retain educators longer. Students and teachers at Whittier Elementary School in Mesa, Ariz., work in groups and independently, Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2022.
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  • Adult school student volunteer Starnese Sims, second from right in glasses, sings along with preschool children at Bradley Early Education Center, located on the campus of Maxine Waters Employment Prep Center, in Watts on May 5, 2026 . Adult school student volunteers visit Bradley EEC twice a week for field work as part of a career pathway that will earn them their child development assistant permit. The setup provides the preschool with extra staffing support and allows for collaboration between preschool teachers and adult school staff as students move through the program. The LAUSD early education center is home to the district's first experiment with non-traditional care hours through its expansion this year into evening child care.
    A student volunteer sings along with preschool children at Bradley Early Education Center in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles on May 5, 2026. Older students visit the center regularly as part of a career pathway that will earn them their child development assistant permit. A coalition of education groups wants greater federal investment in research aimed at strengthening career-connected education that students are increasingly demanding.
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    Mississippi teachers and aspiring teachers attend a training session on a science-based reading program in April 2021.
    Mississippi teachers and aspiring teachers attend a training session on a science-based reading program in April 2021. The state is among those that have mandated evidence-based approaches to teaching reading, but some of the nation's teacher-preparation programs are lagging.
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    Students follow along in their copies of “Among the Hidden” by Margaret Peterson Haddix in a seventh grade reading class at in Bow, N.H., on Oct. 29, 2025.
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    Reading & Literacy How Family Reading Time Can Help Older Students Thrive
    EdWeek readers offer suggestions about how to get older students reading more.
    Marina Whiteleather, June 5, 2026
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    Students return from the Ephrata, Pa. district's "maker bus" to their classrooms at Fulton Elementary School as teacher Joel Bischoff leads them on April 29, 2026. The Ephrata district parks the mobile makerspace at each of its elementary schools a few weeks at a time to allow students to complete hands-on projects. The district has oriented its teaching around projects that allow students to demonstrate skills like empathy and creativity alongside content knowledge.
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