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Does Humor Help Students Remember?
If you want kids to pay attention to the news, new research shows that comedy might help.
Equity & Diversity
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'We All Have LGBTQ Students, Whether We Know It or Not'
Three educators provide suggestions to support LGBTQ students, including respecting pronouns and having LGBTQ authors in classroom libraries.
Reading & Literacy
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How a Bathroom Log Helped One Middle School Understand Its Literacy Issues
Reading isn’t just a set of skills. Sometimes we need to explore other avenues to help us assist students to become better readers.
School & District Management
Opinion
Pandemic Recovery Will Require the Best School Leaders
To face the education challenges of today and tomorrow, we must invest in the principal pipeline.
School & District Management
Opinion
Ed. Leaders: Discuss Race, Call Out White Supremacy
Downplaying the realities of racism leads to misunderstanding school problems and developing inadequate solutions.
School & District Management
Opinion
How I Survived Illness and Racism to Find My 'Tribe'
A Black school leader reflects on the hardest year of her professional life.
Accountability
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Absenteeism Is the Wrong Student Engagement Metric to Use Now
In a post-pandemic era for school accountability, let’s focus on measuring what matters.
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Student Mental Health: Helping a Generation Cope With COVID-19’s Fallout
The pandemic's toll on student mental health may not be fully understood for years. Here's how educators are responding.
Equity & Diversity
Opinion
How to Get Black History Right: A Series
What does it mean to be an educator of Black history? Educators, students, and historians explore.
Special Report
Big Ideas for Confronting Racism in Education
There’s no single solution for combating anti-Black racism in schools.
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A Year Interrupted
When COVID-19 closed schools for millions of students, Education Week documented two seniors as they faced an uncertain future.
School Choice & Charters Opinion Is Hybrid Home Schooling the Future of Education?Rick Hess speaks with Mike McShane about hybrid home schooling, which combines the best of home schooling and traditional schooling.Ed-Tech Policy Letter to the Editor Using E-Rate to Address the Homework GapThe FCC's E-rate program can provide relief to many families, says this letter author from the Internet Society.
Social Studies Opinion Civics Roadmap’s Designers Would Do Well to Heed Their CriticsSupporters of Educating for American Democracy's Roadmap should spend time listening, learning, and addressing legitimate concerns.
Equity & Diversity Opinion Strategies for Supporting LGBTQ StudentsThree educators share ways to help LGBTQ students.
Equity & Diversity Opinion Trans Youth Are Under Attack. Educators Must Step UpWhat can schools do in the face of the extreme hostility trans and gender-nonconforming young people now face across the country?
Classroom Technology Opinion The Stanford Scholar Bent on Helping Digital Readers Spot Fake NewsRick Hess speaks with Sam Wineburg about fake news, digital learning, and how to help children navigate online content.
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What's Ahead for Hybrid Learning: Putting Best Practices in Motion
It’s safe to say hybrid learning—a mix of in-person and remote instruction that evolved quickly during the pandemic—is probably here to stay in K-12 education to some extent. That is the case even though increasing
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The importance of disrupting traditional American math practices and adopting high-quality math curriculum continues to be essential for changing the trajectory of historically under-resourced schools. Building systems around high-quality math curriculum also is necessary to
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Students’ social-emotional well-being matters. The positive and negative emotions students feel are essential characteristics of their psychology, indicators of their well-being, and mediators of their success in school and life. Supportive relationships with peers, school
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Student Well-Being Opinion Why Venting When You Have Problems Feels Good—and Why It Doesn’t WorkWhen you keep talking about what’s bothering you, it keeps the negative emotions alive. Here’s what research says to do instead.
Teacher Preparation Opinion Far Too Many Educators Aren’t Prepared to Teach Black and Brown StudentsTeacher-prep programs can help address that inadequacy, writes Sharif El-Mekki.
Mathematics Opinion Using Project-Based Learning in Math ClassesTwo teachers share practical strategies for using project-based learning in math classes, including one called "Notice & Wonder."
Teaching Profession Opinion What Can We Do to Help the Well-Being of Teachers?A Seat at the Table focused on the social-emotional well-being of teachers during the pandemic. Here's what we learned from the guests.
Equity & Diversity Opinion When Does Educational Equity Become Educationally Unethical?Equity stumbles into a truly gruesome place when educators are directed to shortchange students based on how they look or where they live.
Teaching Opinion Twenty-Eight Educators Share Their Best Teaching AdviceTwenty-eight—yup, count 'em, 28—educators offer teaching advice that has helped them and their students.
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Learn what the experts say about growing student engagement and accelerating learning during this unprecedented time.
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From breaking down barriers to equity to moving beyond skills-based instruction, this informative guide showcases the words and ideas of ...
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Discover five foundational strategies districts should employ when developing their hybrid learning initiatives, complete with concrete steps administrators can take today to ensure sustainable hybrid learning success tomorrow, and beyond.
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