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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.
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Curriculum See the Retired School Bus That High Schoolers Turned Into a Mobile Makerspace
In a Pennsylvania district, students use a bus specially outfitted for them to work on creative projects.
Evie Blad
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Mathematics Opinion How to Overhaul High School Math Pathways (and Why You Should)
What should count for math credit? This state ed. commissioner explains why the answer matters.
Angélica Infante-Green
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Reading & Literacy Even in Math, Teachers See a Chance to Boost Students' Reading Skills
Minnesota middle school teachers spread foundational literacy skills across academic classes.
Sarah D. Sparks
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Teacher Preparation More Teacher-Preparation Programs Follow the 'Science of Reading.' But Some Still Lag
Roughly half of programs reviewed train teachers in the skills needed to teach reading effectively.
Sarah D. Sparks
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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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Teaching Opinion How Daring My Students to Rescue a Lobster Saved Me From Burnout
What began as a running joke injected real energy back into my classroom culture.
Kayla Alexander
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Teaching A Bet Over a Lobster Changed My Classroom Culture
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    Early Childhood Q&A The Unspoken Reason Men Turn Away From Careers as Early Educators
    Calvin Moore Jr. gets honest about why so few men are early-childhood teachers and how to fix it.
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    English Learners Opinion Immigrant Student Enrollment Is Falling. How Should Schools Respond?
    Enrollment patterns may change, but schools still need to take care of their English learners.
    Larry Ferlazzo, June 3, 2026
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    Aspiring Educator Amaya Mills, top left, is working with Amanda Malpaya, top right, during the First graders' reading class at Ponderosa Elementary School in Aurora, Colorado on Oct. 29, 2024. The Cherry Creek School District launched a new, innovative program that offers future educators a transformative pathway to become a teacher that is grounded in hands-on classroom experience paired with high-performing mentors. The Aspiring Educator Pathway Program will adopt a model similar to a medical residency program that incorporates a collaborative team-teaching environment with more than 4,000 hours of experience in the classroom, compared to the typical 700 hours.
    Aspiring Educator Amaya Mills, top left, is working with Amanda Malpaya, top right, during the first graders' reading class at Ponderosa Elementary School in Aurora, Colorado on Tuesday, October 29, 2024. The Cherry Creek School District launched a new, innovative program that offers future educators a transformative pathway to become a teacher that is grounded in hands-on classroom experience paired with high-performing mentors.
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    Teacher Preparation Inside a State's Yearlong Residency for New Teachers: 'They’re Seeing It All'
    The residency model has become a talent pipeline for school districts struggling to recruit teachers.
    Marie Fazio, The Advocate, Baton Rouge, La., June 1, 2026
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    Teaching Profession Beach Reads, Not PD: Teachers Set Summer Boundaries
    Many teachers plan to avoid summer PD reading, choosing rest and relaxation instead.
    Olina Banerji, June 1, 2026
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    Boone Williams, 20, center, talks to other students in the apprentice training program class at the Plumbers and Pipefitters Local Union 572 facility in Nashville, Tenn., on Thursday, Feb. 2, 2023. Williams says eventually he expects to earn far more than friends who took quick jobs after high school. He even thinks he’s better off than some who went to college — he knows too many who dropped out or took on debt for degrees they never used. “In the long run, I’m going to be way more set than any of them,” he says.
    Boone Williams, 20, center, talks with students in an apprentice training class at the Plumbers and Pipefitters Local Union 572 facility in Nashville, Tenn., Feb. 2, 2023. Programs like this reflect growing interest in career pathways as more students weigh alternatives to traditional four-year college degrees.
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    College & Workforce Readiness Not All Students Are College-Bound. More Schools Are Paying Attention
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    Elizabeth Heubeck, May 29, 2026
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    Surrounded by family and friends, Shrey Parikh, 14, of Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., holds his trophy after winning the 2026 Scripps National Spelling Bee at DAR Constitution Hall, Thursday, May 28, 2026, in Washington.
    Surrounded by family and friends, Shrey Parikh, 14, of Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., holds his trophy after winning the 2026 Scripps National Spelling Bee at DAR Constitution Hall, Thursday, May 28, 2026, in Washington.
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    Reading & Literacy 14-Year-Old Bounces Back, Dominates Spell-Off to Win the National Scripps Bee
    The teenager from California who missed his school bee last year set a spell-off record Thursday night.
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