Education Week

How Much Time Do Students Spend in School? It Depends on the State: State laws vary from 160 to 186 required school days per year.

When Transitions Lead to Tantrums: How to Help Young Students Be More Flexible: Preschool students are increasingly inflexible, say teachers. Experts explain why, and how to help.

Evaluation Beyond the Checkbox: Turning Ratings Into Teacher Growth: Ratings alone don’t help teachers improve. Join us Nov. 10 to hear what happens after the evaluation: feedback, follow-up, and growth.

What ‘Sold a Story’ Misses About Direct Instruction (Opinion): A veteran educator takes issue with Emily Hanford's stance on a contentious instructional system.

Democratic Governors Have Questions About the Federal School Choice Program: A letter from five Democratic governors signals some movement as state leaders decide whether to opt in.

Why It’s Getting Tougher to Serve School Meals Made From Scratch: Federal reimbursements aren't sufficient to support school meal programs.

Want to Improve Attendance? Start With Relationships: Schools must tailor attendance strategies to their communities, researchers say.

Reading, Writing, and Math Skills Are Top Priorities in This CTE Program: How these teachers are connecting the dots between academic and technical skills.

Preventing Measles Outbreaks in Schools: Key Takeaways: Schools can insulate themselves from health risks through a combination of knowledge and prevention.

Schools Wrestle With Exploding Health Costs: 'Medical Inflation Is Crushing Us': School districts face a dilemma as healthcare costs surge, but they're getting creative.

Celebrate Family Engagement Day With Strategies That Work: Join National PTA and AASA to explore practical systems-wide family engagement strategies in celebration of National Family Engagement Day.

How One Library Is Linking Storytime to Classroom Lessons: In one county, some after-school programs use the schools' curriculum. It could boost kids' reading, experts say.

Bridging the Math Gap: What’s New in Dyscalculia Identification, Instruction & State Action: Discover the latest dyscalculia research insights, state-level policy trends, and classroom strategies to make math more accessible for all.

Don’t Count Them Out: Dyscalculia Support from PreK-Career

Don’t Be Fooled by Claims That Tax-Credit Scholarships Can Help Public Education (Opinion): The latest federal school choice scheme is a Trojan horse, argue Miguel Cardona and Robert Kim.

Don’t Count Them Out: Dyscalculia Support from PreK-Career: Join Dr. Elliott and Dr. Wall as they empower educators to support students with dyscalculia to envision successful careers and leadership roles.

Don’t Count Them Out: Dyscalculia Support from PreK-Career: Join Dr. Elliott and Dr. Wall as they empower educators to support students with dyscalculia to envision successful careers and leadership roles.

The Bridgeable Math Gap: Lessons Learned from Dyslexia: Explore dyscalculia resources, tools, and solutions with a panel of expert educators. Shift paradigms, bridge gaps, make a difference.

Dual Enrollment Is Surging. Here's How High Schools Can Get it Right: More than 3 million high school students took a college course last year.

States Call for More Time on Math. Schools Struggle to Shift Their Schedules: A growing number of states have mandated schools spend at least 60 minutes a day on math instruction.

How One State Is Fixing Bureaucratic Hurdles for English Learners: New legislation in California helps the state catch up and lead in reclassifying English learners.

Teaching Feelings at Age 4 Pays Off at 21, 20-Year Study Shows: Social-emotional learning in preschool is associated with better measures of well-being in young adulthood.

The CTE Program Answering the Question ‘Why Do I Need Math to Be a Firefighter?’: Integrating academic learning into career and technical education comes with challenges.

'Top-Down Decisions' Are Out. See What This School District Leader Does: This superintendent is convinced that solving complex problems requires effective listening skills.

'Just Stick to Romeo and Juliet': How to Miss the Point About Teaching (Opinion): Teaching may look easy. It requires skills that make the profession anything but.

A Tale of Two School Districts: Forecasting Enrollment: Forecasting enrollment is hard. Here’s how two different districts are navigating times of change with data that considers the whole picture.

Why This Under-the-Radar Piece of Literacy Reform Is One of the Most Important: Parent notification is a central piece of reading reform, this advocate says.

Dealing With Students' Mental Health Is Exacerbating Teachers' Own Challenges: The more mental health and behavioral supports teachers provide, the higher their own burnout risk.

No, Self-Directed Learning Doesn't Make Teachers Obsolete (Opinion): When students own their own learning, professional expertise becomes more important.

'Long Form' vs. 'Short' Reading: What's Going on Inside A Student's Brain?: Reading a novel and reading short text messages work the brain differently. Here's what that means.

How Tech Can Help or Harm Instruction for English Learners With Disabilities: Devices and AI-powered tools can lead to engagement or isolation, researchers and advocates say.

Am I Brave Enough to Die for My Students? (Opinion): An unspoken fear haunts educators in the era of school shootings. It’s time we talk about it.

3 Ways to Build Elementary Students' Digital Literacy Skills: Teachers suggest age-appropriate ways to talk about computers, the internet, and artificial intelligence.

Measles Has Come Back in Force. Is Your School Ready?: The United States has recorded more measles cases this year than in any year in more than three decades.

What Could a Blue Wave Mean for School Choice? (Opinion): A Democratic wave could slow school choice’s momentum, but established programs are hard to undo.

School Choice Could Prove Pivotal in Some Midterm Races This Fall: "The politics of school choice are being scrambled in real time," says one advocate.

Can Public Schools Try to Boost Diversity? Admissions Policies Face a New Test: Challenges to race-neutral methods for selective admissions are continuing.

AI and 'Techlash' Are on a Collision Course. How Should Schools Respond?: Learn what strategies and tactics schools can develop to encourage smart and responsible AI use, while also enforcing tech guardrails.

Hackers Steal Personal Data of Millions of California Students in Massive Breach: The data breach involved Educational Testing Service, or ETS, which provides extensive services to California.

Want Kids to Read More? An Expert Shares the Low-Cost Tips That Work: A researcher shares her tips about how to motivate kids to read more.

Getting Middle Schoolers to Do the Reading Is Hard. Can Communal Reading Help?: New classroom methods aim to help kids internalize the message that engaging in print is worth it.

Tackling the Decline in Student Reading: Our newest report examines strategies to counter low student engagement in reading, inside and outside of class.

Can Pizza Hut-Style Rewards Spark Lifelong Reading Habits?: Schools need to partner with parents and community organizations to help students read more.

Creating a Culture of Reading for Pleasure Amid a Focus on Basics: School librarians at Missouri's Clayton school district bring a culture of reading to all students.

Special Education Disputes & Rising Costs: Protecting Your District: Special education costs and risks are rising. Learn how stronger IEP and Medicaid processes help districts protect funding and compliance.

A Shooting Strikes an Elementary School. Some Doubt Policy Change Will Follow: Tragedies like the one in Bend., Ore., draw public outcry, but typically not swift change on school safety.

Teachers' Unions Face More Competition for Influence in School Board Elections: A study suggests that parents are perceived as more influential by board members than unions.

Puerto Rico Balks at Trump's Proposal to Require English at Head Start Centers: Parents and educators warn the change could undermine children's connection to their culture.

Beyond the Classroom: Extending High-Quality Instruction Into the Home: Your curriculum doesn't have to stop at the classroom door. See how two districts bring families into PreK–3 learning.

Court Declares Ohio School Choice Voucher Program Unconstitutional: A state appellate court found a voucher program harms public schools and violates Ohio’s constitution.