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Long before the Education Department’s overhaul of the federal student aid application fell apart this year, officials who now lead the department were warned...
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The Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Dartmouth College voted on Monday to censure the university’s president, Sian Leah Beilock, over her decision to...
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This spring, a group of elected parent leaders in New York asked the city to review education department rules allowing transgender students to play...
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When 70 university presidents gathered for a summit at the end of January, the topic on everyone’s mind was the crisis at Harvard. The...
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Principals have one of the toughest jobs in education, and how much they’re paid has an impact on their motivation and capacity to carry...
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More than 1 in 3 public school students now take Algebra 1 before high school. For those students to succeed, schools must adjust middle...
Teaching
I’ve previously posted about the most important instructional strategies to use when teaching English-language learners. Today, I’d like to share my ideas for the...
Teaching
For more than two decades, national tests have been informing educators that nearly 3 in 10 8th graders lack basic mastery in reading. An...
Academies
GCSE computer science students will learn about the impacts that artificial intelligence can have on “individuals, wider society, the economy and the environment” under...
Academies
I’d always known, for as long as I can remember, that my grandfather was a Holocaust survivor. But there was, within the unspoken rules...
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Education secretary Gillian Keegan has called for 1,000 expert volunteers to sign up and help schools create their climate action plans. The climate ambassador...
Leaders
Fully seven decades after the U.S. Supreme Court decided Brown v. Board of Education, Black students and their schools remain functionally separate and unequal....
Academies
Today the Runnymede Trust and our partners at Freelands Foundation launch Visualise, the first major research into race and ethnicity in GCSE art education. Our findings confirm what art...
Academies
Debating should be encouraged to boost pupils’ oracy and steps should be taken to ensure exam preparation does not “distort” the English curriculum, Ofsted...
Academies
Getting financial education onto the national curriculum was a “pyrrhic victory” and “self-defeating”, the journalist and campaigner Martin Lewis has admitted, as schools lack...
Teaching
Today’s post is the latest in a multiyear series written by students. In this series, they share what they think all teachers can learn...
Academies
Referrals to social care services for one in four “severely absent” pupils resulted in “no further action”, prompting calls for more help from wider...
Leaders
As principals grapple with a lasting pattern of chronic absenteeism, they quickly come to terms with one stark reality at the heart of the...
Leaders
The U.S. Department of Education opened a civil rights investigation into the Owasso, Okla., district following the death of a 16-year-old nonbinary student the...
Leaders
Three decades ago, John Gray’s mega-hit book, Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus, sold 15 million copies. The premise was simple: When...
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Around one in five pupils in England are at risk of falling below the government’s new mandatory threshold for absence fines, new analysis suggests....
Academies
The Department for Education has been ordered to respond more quickly to freedom of information (FOI) requests or face enforcement action, after admitting to...
Policy
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up a case about a Maryland school district’s policies to support transgender students and when...
Policy
Corey DeAngelis is a senior fellow at the American Federation for Children and the executive director of the Educational Freedom Institute. He’s a controversial,...
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A federal appeals court on May 15 refused to block a Maryland school district’s policy preventing parents from opting their children out of LGBTQ+...
Leaders
Should school district mission statements explicitly mention diversity, equity, and inclusion? If a district ensures that all students feel a sense of inclusion and...
Leaders
Students’ mental health and social-emotional needs have risen in recent years, but schools have reported feeling less equipped to meet those needs. Schools often...
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Editor’s note: For additional perspectives on the 70th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, Education Week Opinion Contributor Bettina L. Love invited R....
Academies
Aside from being a statutory obligation, teachers should see continued professional development (CPD) as an integral (and integrated) component of their role. A recent...
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“This is the graduation gown that I may or may not be wearing — if they let me walk. I’m leaving UChicago with a...
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President Biden invoked scripture and lessons from his own tragic past on Sunday in a commencement address to hundreds of young Black men at...