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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
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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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Daryn Ray for Education Week
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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Mike Bradley for Education Week
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
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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
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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
BRIC ARCHIVE
Special Report Teaching in Today's Tech-Powered Classroom
October 3, 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
BRIC ARCHIVE
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
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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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Special Report STEM Education
K-12 schooling in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics offers the potential for innovative ways to inspire students—as well as obstacles that can prevent them from sustained success in those fields.
May 23, 2018
Students Destini Williams and Amrose Bhujel test vehicles they’ve made from trash at Woodward Park Middle School in Columbus, Ohio.
Students Destini Williams and Amrose Bhujel test vehicles they’ve made from trash at Woodward Park Middle School in Columbus, Ohio.
Maddie McGarvey for Education Week
Special Report What Do Principals Believe?
This year’s report takes a hard look at what principals are thinking and doing about some of the most vexing technology issues in their schools.
April 18, 2018
Freddie P. Alarcon, the principal of Corporate Landing Middle School in Virginia Beach, Va., said social media “is the world our teenagers are living in.”
Freddie P. Alarcon, the principal of Corporate Landing Middle School in Virginia Beach, Va., said social media “is the world our teenagers are living in.”
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