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1 month ago | 
edweek.org | Vanessa Solis |Lauren Santucci
Student Achievement K-12 Essentials Forum Learning Interventions That Work Join this free virtual event to explore best practices in academic interventions and how to know whether they are making a difference. Teacher Jobs Search over ten thousand teaching jobs nationwide — elementary, middle, high school and more.
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2 months ago | 
edweek.org | Stephen Sawchuk |Lauren Santucci
Email Facebook LinkedIn Twitter Copy URL The latest results of the federally administered National Assessment of Educational Progress show continuing declines in students’ reading scores and some modest progress in math. Listen as Education Week breaks down the findings—and how to interpret them.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
edweek.org | Mark Lieberman |Lauren Santucci
President Joe Biden signed the Social Security Fairness Act into law on Jan. 5, prompting hundreds of thousands of educators across the country to wonder whether they’d benefit from the new policy. Advocates for teachers and retirees have been pressing for years for the federal government to get rid of Social Security policy provisions that limit benefits for certain groups of public-sector workers, including many educators.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
edweek.org | Lauren Santucci
Email Facebook LinkedIn Twitter Copy URL For some students, school breaks aren’t something they look forward to. The school building is the place where their needs—food, stability, connection—are consistently met. Here, a Michigan teacher shares his methods for fostering relationships with all students, including the ones who need it most.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
edweek.org | Evie Blad |Lauren Santucci
President-elect Donald Trump has announced plans to nominate former World Wrestling Entertainment CEO Linda McMahon to serve as U.S. Secretary of Education. McMahon was the head of the Small Business Administration in Trump’s first term, later taking on roles in support of his political campaign, policy agenda, and presidential transition.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
edweek.org | Evie Blad |Lauren Santucci
President-elect Donald Trump ran on a pledge to abolish the U.S. Department of Education. After his election victory, a flood of educators and activists have asked the same question: Can he really do that? The short answer: It’s possible, but he couldn’t do it alone. Members of Congress would have to approve a plan to reorganize federal agencies, and Trump would face a lot of hurdles in winning their support.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
edweek.org | Ileana Najarro |Lauren Santucci |Kaylee Domzalski
It’s one thing to study the electoral process in class. It’s another experience entirely to witness the process live and in person with classmates over pizza. Students in Noah Lipman’s Advanced Placement U.S. Government and Politics class from Highlands High School in San Antonio, Texas, continued a tradition Tuesday night that Lipman started in 2016. They partook in an election night watch party at a local restaurant, watching returns come in live with classmates and alongside local residents.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
teachplus.org | Ileana Najarro |Lauren Santucci |Kaylee Domzalski
It’s one thing to study the electoral process in class. It’s another experience entirely to witness the process live and in person with classmates over pizza. Students in Noah Lipman’s Advanced Placement U.S. Government and Politics class from Highlands High School in San Antonio, Texas, continued a tradition Tuesday night that Lipman started in 2016. They partook in an election night watch party at a local restaurant, watching returns come in live with classmates and alongside local residents.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
edweek.org | Stephen Sawchuk |Lauren Santucci
Reading is often taught as a generic skill that works the same in every context. But reading a poem and reading a scientific text make very different demands on the reader. Education Week’s latest special report delves into this idea of reading across disciplines. Teachers don’t have to be experts on reading theory to support their students in this work.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
edweek.org | Olina Banerji |Lauren Santucci
Storytelling and mathematics don’t naturally go together. The best way to spark a discussion about a math topic in a classroom can be unpopular with many students: solving word problems. Word problems often either come too late in a lesson or are disconnected from students’ reality. They are cognitively challenging—a student needs to translate the words into a number equation and pick a mathematical operation to solve it.
