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Kindergartners Write Letters to the President-Elect
Three teachers at the Co-op School, a private school in Brooklyn, N.Y., had each of their students write letters to the new president-elect, Donald Trump. Teacher Dahna Bozarth wrote about the exercise...
View ArticleEducation Week’s Photos of the Year for 2016
Education Week’s photo staff presents our favorite images from 2016. A 2nd grade class at Solar Prep lines up before a nature walk around the Dallas campus. The all-girls school opened this school year...
View ArticleNational School Choice Week Around the Country
Parents, students, and administrators wave yellow scarfs as they take part in a rally in support of school choice on Jan. 24 in Austin, Texas. –Eric Gay/AP This past week there have been approximately...
View ArticleTransitioning from Island Life to an Inland High School
Dominique Hessert, a senior at the Rochester Institute of Technology, documented the story of Connor Maxcy, a student at a one-room schoolhouse on Isle au Haut in Maine, as part of her senior capstone...
View ArticleSchool’s Out: A Year-End Scrapbook
The end of the school year marks a time of celebration and the opening of new chapters in students’ lives. The photo editors at Education Week selected some of the images that captured the bittersweet...
View ArticleWhen Schools Close in Rural Communities
Schools across the country close down each year for a variety of reasons. In rural areas like Hughes, Ark., it’s often because they are serving smaller numbers of students and it no longer makes...
View ArticleA Focus on Career and Technical Education
As they attract a new wave of attention and support in schools across the country, career and technical education programs grapple with new challenges: How should they maintain program quality and...
View ArticleSmoothing the Entry to Kindergarten
Nearly 4 million kindergartners will be enrolled in the nation’s schools for 2017-18, mostly starting with a blank slate for teachers who may have little information on their skill level and previous...
View ArticleTeen Gun Violence Plagues Cities Big and Small
Wilmington, Del., isn’t Chicago or Los Angeles, Baltimore or Detroit. It is a city of less than 72,000 people known primarily as the birthplace of chemical giant DuPont and as a cozy home for big banks...
View ArticleScenes From Betsy DeVos’‘Rethinking School’ Tour
U.S. Secretary of Betsy DeVos took a six-state “Rethink Education” tour the week of Sept. 11 to kick off the school year, aiming to spotlight promising education approaches, mainly focused on K-12 but...
View ArticlePuerto Rico’s Schools, Communities Fight to Recover From Storm Devastation
Less than a month ago, Hurricane Maria slammed the island of Puerto Rico, swamping towns and displacing residents from their homes. Most schools are still closed to students, but many are now being...
View ArticleRaising Kings: Inside a School Designed to Meet the Needs of Young Men of Color
From the early stages of recruiting students and training teachers, to the final bell of the school year, Education Week‘s Kavitha Cardoza and NPR’s Cory Turner followed teachers, students, and parents...
View ArticleRaising Kings: Ron Brown College Prep Teachers Give Voice to Expectations
From the early stages of recruiting students and training teachers, to the final bell of the school year, Education Week‘s Kavitha Cardoza and NPR’s Cory Turner followed teachers, students, and parents...
View ArticleA Photographer’s View of Ron Brown College Prep
Photographer Jared Soares discusses his experiences, and shares his favorite images from documenting faculty and students at Ron Brown College Preparatory High School in Washington, D.C. The...
View ArticleThanksgiving Tribe Teaches Language Lost to Colonization
Massachusetts Institute of Technology archivist Nora Murphy places a second edition of the Eliot Indian Bible on a table at the MIT rare book collection, in Cambridge, Mass. The second edition of the...
View ArticleEducation Week’s Photos of the Year for 2017
Education Week‘s favorite photographs from 2017, captured by staff and a nationwide network of freelance, wire service and newspaper photojournalists, document news events, policy developments, and...
View ArticleInside Classrooms in Three States: Quality Counts 2018
Jake Ruhl, left, Easton Bigham and Zahraa Almohanna eat lunch together at Starkville Early Learning Collaborative in Starkville, Miss. –Andrea Morales for Education Week The 22nd edition of Quality...
View ArticleA Look at Recruiting and Keeping Good Teachers
Sarah Stucky, a history and economics teacher at Niles North High School in Skokie, Ill., drops off her 3-year-old son Emmett Lawler at the day-care facility housed at her school. –Alyssa Schukar for...
View ArticleLearning in a Corrections Facility: A Day at Wyoming Girls School – Photo Essay
A stay in a corrections facility—often hours away from home, school, and everything that is familiar—is a shock to the system for any student. But studies show girls are significantly more likely than...
View ArticleStudents Walk Out To Protest Gun Violence – Photo Gallery
Students nationwide walked out of their classes on Friday, April 20, for the second mass school walkout since the school shooting in Parkland, Fla. Students marched to demand action on gun violence and...
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