The government has published its long-awaited draft guidance update on relationships, sex and health education, setting age limits on “sensitive” topics and ordering schools...
Teachers’ unions, long defenders of the teaching profession, are now putting their own spin on an often-criticized component: teacher preparation. The Washington Education Association...
Schools should use mentoring and sports to support vulnerable pupils, survey pupils on where and when violence takes place and “cautiously” consider interventions that...
Schools will be “expected” to publish a summary of their “music development plans” on their websites from September, the government has said. In their...
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,...
President Biden announced the cancellation of an additional $1.2 billion in student loan debt for about 153,000 borrowers on Wednesday, his latest effort at...
Unions have expressed their “serious frustration and disquiet” after it emerged the government will miss the deadline to submit evidence to the body that...
How can teachers communicate high expectations to students? Detailed feedback can make all the difference. Here’s something I wrote about the topic for Character...
This post continues a series in which educators share what they have learned from their biggest teaching mistakes. Don’t Grade Every Assignment Cindy Garcia...
Chronic absenteeism has become a grim reality across the nation. Nationwide, chronic absenteeism nearly doubled from 15 percent in 2018 to 26 percent in...
For the third year in a row, recruiting and retaining staff is the top hurdle hindering districts’ ability “to deliver extraordinary student outcomes,” concludes...
Charles V. Hamilton, a philosophical godfather of the Black Power movement, which he envisioned as the means to subvert what he stigmatized as America’s...
A surge in students’ chronic absenteeism since the return to in-person classes hasn’t discriminated, threatening academic recovery in schools of all sizes and demographic...
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....
Many educators will tell you that cellphones are a source of serious academic, mental health, and behavioral problems for students. And school leaders are...
Unions are known for fighting for higher pay and workplace conditions. But academic workers in the University of California system authorized their union on...
When it comes to choosing a commencement speaker, colleges and universities take different approaches. Some go local, selecting well-known figures in the area. Others...