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Insights and analysis from Education Week journalists based on their extensive coverage and expertise
Teacher Preparation
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You Have Anti-Racist Curriculum Resources. Now What Do You Do?
Teachers need spaces to explore how power dynamics have shaped the subjects they teach, explains Sarah Schwartz.
Equity & Diversity
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Do America's Public Schools Owe Black People Reparations?
School districts must make amends for their racist history, writes Daarel Burnette II. What should that look like?
Equity & Diversity
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Students Need Anti-Bias Training, Too
When a student noticed that no one was teaching her classmates about racism, she took matters into her own hands, Catherine Gewertz reports.
Curriculum
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The Myth Fueling Math Anxiety
One in 4 teachers feel anxious doing math. This is having a big impact on what happens in the classroom.
Ed-Tech Policy
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What Does Big Tech Want From Schools? (Spoiler Alert: It's Not Money)
As Amazon, Apple, Google, and Microsoft make themselves increasingly indispensable in education, teachers are getting worried. Should they be?
School & District Management
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Local Journalism Is in Crisis. That's a Big Problem for Education
Local journalism and education are cornerstones of a functioning democracy. What happens when one crumbles?
Families & the Community
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Why Don't Parents Always Choose the Best Schools?
School quality isn’t always the primary driver of parent decisionmaking. So what is?
Assessment
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Who's to Blame for the Black-White Achievement Gap?
Why don’t black students perform as well as white students on tests? One reporter considers her personal history to understand this disparity.
Curriculum
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Studying Religious Texts in School Is Bad. And Good
Studying the Old Testament taught me to be intellectually rigorous, one reporter writes. But is it really possible to separate the religious text from the religion?
Social Studies
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Sure, We Teach History. But Do We Know Why It's Important?
It’s always been a struggle to teach history in a way that resonates with students—especially when we can’t agree on why we should.
Classroom Technology
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Teachers, the Robots Are Coming. But That's Not a Bad Thing
Ignoring artificial intelligence won’t keep it out of the classroom. Instead, teachers should be actively shaping it.
Law & Courts
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It's One of the Most Fraught Words in Education. What Does It Mean?
Loaded or empirical? Incendiary or honest? Unavoidable or misleading? There’s a big disconnect around how we use the word “segregation.”
School & District Management
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Face It, School Governance Is a Mess
Centuries of fighting over racial justice, federalism, and taxation has left us a tangled web of K-12 governance. It’s time to start untangling.
Every Student Succeeds Act
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The Black Achievement Paradox Nobody's Talking About
Drawing on his experience growing up in an Air Force family, Daarel Burnette II highlights emerging research on military-connected students.