Teachers
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The State of Teaching, 2025 Edition
New national data on the teaching profession, vivid reporting from classrooms, and resources to help support this essential profession.
Teaching Profession
Teaching in 2020 vs. 2010: A Look Back at the Decade
As the 2010s draw to a close, teachers are left reeling from massive shifts in policy and practice that have affected their everyday work.
Federal
Interactive
Timeline: How Teaching Has Changed Over the Decade
Here's a look at how national policy on teachers and teaching has changed over the past 10 years.
Professional Development
Opinion
I Study How Teachers Collaborate Online. Here's How They Can Do It Better
Researcher Robin Anderson shares what happened when one online community of teachers tried to unlearn their deficit mindsets together.
Student Achievement
From Our Research Center
How Teachers Talk About Educational Disparities (Data)
In a national survey, we dug into how teachers use language to make sense of disparities in student outcomes by race and income level.
Teaching Profession
Tiny Teaching Stories: 'I'm Just Not Ready to Go Home Yet'
Super-short stories written by teachers about their triumphs and frustrations, and the hilarious or absurd moments from their lives.
School & District Management
Letter to the Editor
Evidence Over Experience
To the Editor:
Joseph Murphy is correct that teachers' experience is a valuable element of efficacy and shouldn't be dismissed ("Stop Devaluing the Wisdom of Teachers. Researchers Don't Have a Monopoly on Evidence," Oct. 30, 2019). However, the scientific evidence backing effective practices is an essential element that also can't be undervalued, so I'm compelled to enter this perspective into the conversation.
Joseph Murphy is correct that teachers' experience is a valuable element of efficacy and shouldn't be dismissed ("Stop Devaluing the Wisdom of Teachers. Researchers Don't Have a Monopoly on Evidence," Oct. 30, 2019). However, the scientific evidence backing effective practices is an essential element that also can't be undervalued, so I'm compelled to enter this perspective into the conversation.
Teaching Profession
Opinion
Tiny Teaching Stories: 'Those Three Keep Haunting Me'
Super-short stories written by teachers about their triumphs and frustrations, and the hilarious or absurd moments from their lives.
Special Report
Inside the Principal-Teacher Relationship
Education Week talked to dozens of principals about strategies for building strong partnerships with teachers and heard from many teachers about what they need most from school leaders.
School & District Management
4 Things Principals Can Do (and 4 Things They Shouldn't) to Build Relationships With Teachers
Veteran teachers give advice on how principals can foster meaningful buy-in among their school’s staff members.
Law & Courts
She Was a Teacher. She Got Pregnant. Her Case Ended Up at the Supreme Court
One of the main plaintiffs in a landmark blow against pregnancy discrimination in the workplace recalls her fight in the early 1970s and discusses how it still resonates today.
Teaching Profession
Opinion
Tiny Teaching Stories: 'For Good Instead of Mischief'
Super-short stories written by teachers about their triumphs and frustrations, and the hilarious or absurd moments from their lives.
Teaching Profession
Share Your Teaching Story – In No More Than 100 Words
Teachers! Share the triumphs and frustrations, the hilarious or absurd moments from your lives, in no more than 100 words.
Teaching
Tiny Teaching Stories: The Powerful Moments of Your Lives, Distilled
Teachers share the triumphs and frustrations, the hilarious or absurd moments from their lives, in no more than 100 words.
Teaching Profession
Yes, Teachers Once Could Be Fired for Being Pregnant. Here's What You Should Know
Sen. Elizabeth Warren's story about being forced out of her teaching job for being visibly pregnant exposes a widespread practice through the 1970s.