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Special Report What Student-Centered Schools Look Like
What does it take to assure that a school serves the student—rather than the other way around—in everything from engagement and security to clean air and the lunch schedule? This special report takes an in-depth look.
March 13, 2019
Special Report Projects, Portfolios, and Performance Assessments
Alternatives to traditional testing aren’t new to schools but interest in them is resurging. What lessons did educators learn from the last go-around with performance measurement? What’s new now?
February 6, 2019
Quality Counts Special Report Quality Counts 2019: Chance for Success
Which states do best job in assuring bright prospects for success over the course of a lifetime? The Quality Counts Chance-for-Success Index offers detailed answers.
January 16, 2019
Big Ideas in Education Special Report 10 Big Ideas in Education 2019
Education Week reporters and editors identify 10 of today’s most pressing challenges in education and offer bold ideas for addressing them.
January 9, 2019
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Special Report Special Education: Practice & Pitfalls
Educators and parents use a range of promising tools as they work to serve the needs of the nation’s 6 million students with disabilities amid continuing challenges.
December 5, 2018
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Special Report Unchaining Digital Data
This Education Week examination of school districts’ pursuit of “interoperability” is the first of three special reports focused on the needs of K-12 district technology leaders, including chief technology officers.
November 28, 2018
Special Report Personalized Learning 2018
Four critical questions about personalized learning are prompting educators to take a harder look at this approach and determine if they need to correct any missteps.
November 7, 2018
Special Report Principals Under Pressure
Principals have the hardest job in schools. They must answer to the central office, be responsive to parents, support and coach their teachers, and build relationships with students. How can one person do all of this well and keep a healthy work-life balance?
October 17, 2018
A journalism adviser confers with a student during an editing session at a high school in Vermont. Journalism classes across the country have changed in light of new digital tools, such as Twitter and livestreaming.
A journalism adviser confers with a student during an editing session at a high school in Vermont. Journalism classes across the country have changed in light of new digital tools, such as Twitter and livestreaming.
Caleb Kenna for Education Week-File
Special Report Literacy for the Workplace
The modern workplace is evolving and employers say that students need different kinds of literacy skills in order to thrive in it. Will English classes change in response?
September 26, 2018
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Illustration by James Steinberg
Quality Counts Special Report Quality Counts 2018: Achievement & Success
The third and final installment of Quality Counts 2018 digs deeply into the data behind how states rank on academic achievement and on students' chance for success in a complex, ever-changing society.
September 5, 2018
Quality Counts Special Report Quality Counts 2018: School Finance
Education Week puts the nation's K-12 finance performance under the microscope in this second installment of Quality Counts 2018, looking at how much gets spent state by state, and how fairly it's divvied up.
June 6, 2018

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