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Teaching Opinion Why Early Learning Classrooms Need More Chit-Chat
Conversation is a vital pedagogical tool. Why is it waning in pre-K and elementary schools?
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Mathematics Opinion Math Instruction Needs to Change. Here's How
A lot has changed in math education in the last decade. Here’s what the next 10 years may hold.
Larry Ferlazzo
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Special Education More Students With Disabilities Are in General Education Classes. How's That Working?
New report examines states' efforts to educate students with disabilities in mainstream classrooms.
Caitlynn Peetz Stephens
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Teaching Profession What Were the Funniest Stories of the School Year? We Asked Educators
In what other job do you hear about lost boogers and polio shirts, and hold a memorial for Gerald the fly?
Arianna Prothero
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A collage-style illustration made of multicolored pieces of watercolor-textured paper. The vignettes in the collage include a rabbit poking its head out of a backpack, a chick cracking out of an egg, a fly pictured on a tombstone, a stapler with a curly phone cord attached to the end of it, a pickle jar with dirt and sand in it, a storm cloud with a strike of lightning and a pair of pants flying away.
Illustration by Emily Wright for Education Week + Getty
Special Education Video Inside a Summer School Program for Special Education Students
Academic support offered between school years is especially important for students with learning differences.
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College & Workforce Readiness How States Are Streamlining College Admissions—and Who Benefits
Direct-admissions programs aim to streamline the college admissions process.
Evie Blad
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Georgia State University students Kavita Javalagi, left, and Gana Natarajan, second from left, speak with Shetundra Pinkston, during the Startup Student Connection job fair, March 29, 2023, in Atlanta. Georgia officials launched a program that year to match high school students to college opportunities and has seen enrollment increases at both technical and four-year colleges since.
Georgia State University students Kavita Javalagi, left, and Gana Natarajan, second from left, speak with Shetundra Pinkston, during the Startup Student Connection job fair, March 29, 2023, in Atlanta. Georgia officials launched a program that year to match high school students to college opportunities and has seen enrollment increases at both technical and four-year colleges since.
Alex Slitz/AP
Teaching Profession Talking About Menopause Is No Longer Taboo. Here's Why That's Good for Teachers
One estimate says that schools experience nearly $800 million in lost productivity annually because of the health issue.
Elizabeth Heubeck
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Oscar-winning actor and women's health activist Halle Berry joins Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., second from left, and Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, right, and other women of the Senate as they introduce new legislation to boost federal research on menopause, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, May 2, 2024. The bipartisan Senate bill, the Advancing Menopause Care and Mid-Life Women's Health Act, would create public health efforts to improve women's mid-life health. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Actress Halle Berry joins federal lawmakers who introduced new legislation to boost federal research on menopause, at the Capitol in Washington, on May 2, 2024. School officials and advocates are paying more attention to the financial cost the health condition brings to schools and individual teachers.
J. Scott Applewhite/AP

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    Morocco's Achraf Hakimi (2) and France's Kylian Mbappe (10) hug after the World Cup quarterfinal soccer match between France and Morocco in Foxborough, Mass., near Boston, on July 9, 2026.
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    Connecticut passed legislation requiring public preschools and kindergartens to provide play-based learning during the school day.
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    K-2 students at South Fayette Township Elementary School in Pennsylvania used data science to pick a name for a cow they adopted to follow at a local farm. A teacher from the school talked to other educators about how she used the cow to teach about data science, AI, and chemistry during the ISTELive 26 + ASCD Annual Conference in Orlando, Fla., on July 1, 2026.
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    Science How a Cow 'Moooved' STEM and AI Learning Forward
    The farm animal helped K-2 students explore artificial intelligence, data science, and chemistry.
    Alyson Klein, July 9, 2026
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    A group of students lead by a teacher through an algebraic landscape. Guided learning of advanced math.
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    Mathematics Opinion How to Embrace the 'Science of Math' Without Abandoning Your Existing Curriculum
    Teachers can improve mathematics instruction with these straightforward changes.
    Danielle K. Hankins, July 9, 2026
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    DC Public Schools Chancellor Lewis Ferebee speaks during a ribbon-cutting ceremony for a new addition at Raymond Elementary School on the first day of school, on Aug. 28, 2023, in Washington.
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    Asia Screen, special education compliance monitor, center right, greets a student at Edward T. Steel School on the first day of school on Aug. 25, 2025, in Philadelphia.
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