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College & Workforce Readiness
What’s More Important to Students and Employers: Skills or Credentials?
At the Reagan Institute Summit on Education, leaders discussed the evolving value of college degrees versus career skills.
College & Workforce Readiness
Opinion
It May Be Time to Retire the Carnegie Unit. Are There Better Measures of Learning?
The Carnegie Foundation popularized seat time as a measure of learning. Now, the organization’s president lays out a new vision.
Science
From Our Research Center
Educators: Start Early to Keep Students Engaged in STEM
The EdWeek Research Center asked teachers, principals, and district leaders how to motivate kids to pursue STEM learning.
Teaching Profession
What Does It Mean for Teachers to Dress ‘Professionally’?
Warm weather makes teachers want to wear casual clothes. But is a dress code really necessary?
Curriculum
Interactive
Play the EdWeek Spelling Bee
Educators use these words all the time. But can they spell them?
College & Workforce Readiness
From Our Research Center
Are Real-World Problem-Solving Skills Essential for Students?
Ensuring students' career readiness is a top priority for districts.
Special Education
Why Special Education Teachers Quit—and What Schools Are Doing About It
States and districts take creative approaches to retain special education teachers.
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Mathematics Young Students Gravitate to Math. How Teachers Can Build on That CuriosityA focus on rich, real-world problems makes math more interesting, relevant, and enticing to students.
College & Workforce Readiness The Motivational Power of STEM: This Program Connects Students to Potential CareersIt's not just about motivation—it's about providing supports for kids to study STEM subjects.
Assessment The State of Teaching Where Teachers Say the Pressure to Change Grades Comes FromTeachers are more likely to be pressured by parents than school leaders.
English-Language Learners Quiz WIDA's Test for English Learners: Try Sample QuestionsThe WIDA ACCESS test is an assessment used by close to 40 states to determine if students must remain in English learner programs.
English-Language Learners What All Teachers Should Know About WIDA's Test for English LearnersResearchers and specialists say general education teachers play a role in helping English learners' language development.
Reading & Literacy Q&A A New Plan to Raise the Lowest Literacy Rates in the NationDaily summer reading instruction for thousands of students is part of a bigger plan to improve literacy in New Mexico.
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Staffing Schools After ESSER: What School and District Leaders Need to Know
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District leaders, low on funds, must decide: broad support for all or deep interventions for few? Let's discuss maximizing tutoring resources.
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Reading & Literacy Older Students Who Struggle to Read Hide in Plain Sight. What Teachers Can DoGoing back to basics may get to the root of the problem.
Teaching Profession Download Downloadable: 5 Ways Principals Can Help With Teacher BurnoutThis downloadable gives school leaders and teachers various ways to spot and treat teacher burnout.
Teacher Preparation Teachers' Unions Are Starting Teacher-Prep Programs. Here's What to KnowThe Washington Education Association is pioneering a teacher residency for special education. Other unions are noticing.
Teaching Opinion 5 Simple Teacher Moves With Big-Time PayoffsGiving students time to reflect on their work is like clicking "save." If teachers don't do it, learning can get lost.
Teacher Preparation These Preparation Programs Are Creating a 'Tutor to Teacher' PipelineA new pipeline offering an authentic glimpse of the profession is growing, despite patchy financial cover.
Social Studies Opinion Make History Exciting Again for StudentsNational History Day seeks to engage young people in deep examination of the past.
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As another testing season approaches, a familiar question weighs heavily on our minds: who are these tests serving?
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Learn how math gatherings provide a collaborative approach to math instruction.
Reading & Literacy
Spotlight
Spotlight on The Science of Reading in Practice
This Spotlight will help you analyze new curricula designed to build knowledge, review the benefits of reading aloud to students, and more.
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