Adam Tyner and Meredith Coffey, analysts at the Fordham Institute in Washington, recently penned a report asking: “Does ‘equitable’ grading benefit students?” They surveyed...
Staff at an East Sussex academy are preparing to ballot for strike action over a trust’s “absolutely excessive” pooling of academy cash. National Education...
Small academy trusts have been warned against asking for government-backed reviews after one chair said the results were used against them to force a...
Nearly seven months after the Israel-Hamas war began, the demonstrations convulsing college campuses nationwide are exposing fresh tensions within the Democratic Party over how...
As the nation’s English-learner population grows each year, more researchers and policymakers are discussing how to best support these students linguistically and academically. Much...
Education Week reporter and data journalist Sarah D. Sparks attended the American Educational Research Association’s annual conference in Philadelphia earlier this month. Here, she...
The Department for Education has axed funding for a recruitment programme aimed at persuading high-flying professionals to change career and retrain as teachers. Now Teach...
Government officials are now undertaking a “route-by-route” review of T-level content and assessment in a bid to boost recruitment and retention on the flagship...
Amid a dizzying array of standoffs involving pro-Palestinian demonstrations and encampments at colleges, schools that cracked down on protesters over the weekend have given...
A wave of pro-Palestinian protests spread and intensified on Wednesday as students gathered on campuses around the country, in some cases facing off with...
Scrapping single-phrase Ofsted judgments would lead to civil servants, politicians and the media “drawing their own conclusions” about schools from the narrative in reports,...
Hundreds of students gathered on Wednesday in Harvard Yard in Cambridge, Mass., to protest Israel’s war in Gaza and the Ivy League university’s suspension...
The Biden administration’s newly unveiled loan-forgiveness plan could help teachers who went into debt to complete their training—if it survives regulatory scrutiny. The plan...
President Joe Biden signed legislation Wednesday banning TikTok, if its China-based owner doesn’t sell its stake in the company within the next nine months....
Columbia University awoke Wednesday to a calendar that laid bare the breadth of its troubles, especially for its president. House Speaker Mike Johnson was...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture unveiled final nutrition standards for school meals Wednesday that include a new, gradual limit on added sugars. The rules...
Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday said he intended to call President Biden and demand that he take action, including potentially sending in the National...
High rates of superintendent vacancies have caught the eye of concerned lawmakers in at least one state. Wisconsin legislators passed a bill to expand...
The politics of education today look very different from those of the Bush-Obama years, when Democrats for Education Reform got its start. The bipartisan...
Tennessee may soon join about two-thirds of states in allowing teachers to carry guns in public schools with administrator approval and some training. A...
Having the right teachers in classrooms is, of course, incredibly important for students’ success. But there are other—often underappreciated—staff members who make sure the...
Nearly 200 protesters were arrested on Saturday at Northeastern University, Arizona State University and Indiana University, according to officials, as colleges across the country...