Special Reports

Special Report ESSA on the Runway

The Every Student Succeeds Act makes its classroom debut this fall. Here’s a look at where things stand after more than two years of preparation by states and school districts that must make ESSA legislative blueprint a reality.

April 4, 2018

Special Report Teaching Vulnerable Students

This special report examines challenges and strategies for educating some of the most vulnerable students in the nation’s schools, including youths in juvenile detention facilities, immigrant students fearing deportation, homeless students with disabilities, and foster children.

March 7, 2018

Merissa Humes, left, an education specialist with Treehouse, an advocacy group focused on getting foster students on a college-bound track, counsels student Jordon Marshelle Barrett at the group’s Seattle office. Humes has weekly meetings with students to help them set goals, apply to colleges and for scholarships, and plan for life after both high school and the foster-care system.

Special Report Getting & Keeping Good Teachers

For many school districts, teacher shortages are a recurring challenge. What are those districts doing differently to attract—and keep—the teachers they need?

January 24, 2018

Quality Counts Special Report Quality Counts 2018: Grading the States

Education Week's annual state-by-state assessment of public education paints a portrait of middling performance overall with patches of high achievement.

January 17, 2018

Big Ideas in Education Special Report 10 Big Ideas in Education 2018

Part opinion writing, part conversation, and part journalism analysis, this special report explores game-changing disruptions to the field of education that have the potential to shake up the schoolhouse and the classroom.

January 10, 2018

Special Report Beyond Red Tape

This special report takes a hard look at recertification, posing questions about how it could be strengthened to support teachers better. The stories include an overview of the diverse provider landscape, perspective pieces by current and former teachers, and profiles of states thinking about how to innovate their license-renewal systems.

December 6, 2017

From left, teachers Jordan McCarty, Ben Long and Linda Hutzler as well as special education co-teacher Francis Willis evaluate a video of McCarty teaching a class at Pine Mountain Middle School in Kennesaw, Ga. The three teachers come together weekly to collaborate and compare data, but this is the first time they watched video and provided feedback to each other. —Melissa Golden/Redux for Education Week

Special Report The New Schoolhouse

This special report is all about school buildings and what it takes to assure that the nation's schoolchildren have a modern, fully-equipped, well-maintained school to attend.

November 29, 2017

Special Report Personalized Learning 2017

Education Week takes a hard look at the big arguments against personalized learning, what the latest research says about it, and how the approach is playing out in classrooms.

November 8, 2017

Fifth grade teacher Elias Hernandez observes 4th grade teacher Jannette Moya at Belmont-Cragin Elementary School in Chicago.

Special Report Nurturing Students' Climb to Success

Cultivating the conditions and relationships that allow all students to thrive requires hard, deliberate work. In this special report, Education Week takes a look at some of the strategies schools are using to get students vested in their learning.

October 18, 2017

Special Report Schools and the Future of Work

What skills do students need to succeed in the workplace of the future? Education Week begins answering that question in this special report.

September 27, 2017

An elite coder with vision, people skills, and high-powered mentors, New York City 9th grader Emma Yang is as close to future-proof as a 13-year old can get. But with technology radically reshaping the labor market, schools face a monumental challenge preparing all students to thrive in a murky future.

Special Report Classroom Tech

This report examines how schools are tackling tech training for teachers, "passive" vs. "active" use of digital tools, and online learning needs.

June 12, 2017

Fifth graders Dominick Kushner, center, William Greenawalt, right, and Anthony Oliastro, code their own video games at South Fayette Intermediate School near Pittsburgh.

Special Report Social-Emotional Learning 2017

This special collection explores methods for avoiding burnout, reducing stress, and teaching cultural responsiveness.

June 7, 2017

Danna Thomas, a kindergarten teacher at Windsor Hills Elementary School in Baltimore, and the founder of Happy Teacher Revolution, smiles and snaps her fingers while a fellow teacher shares a good moment from earlier in the day.