Why do bright young teachers leave urban schools? What will it take to keep them there?

When some students are online and others in school buildings, how can teachers make sure everyone is learning what they need to learn?

A more deliberate approach to curriculum, instruction, assessment, and teacher professional development this fall could mean a better experience for students; the lack of one could turn equity gaps into chasms.

All Classroom Q&A posts sharing classroom-management advice (from the past nine years!) are described and linked to in this compilation post.

The strategy of reinforcing good behavior with praise is the least likely to be taught in teacher-prep programs, an analysis finds.

Support for in-person teaching is rising, but hybrid approaches to instruction remain the most popular, an EdWeek Research Center survey finds.

Penn State Shenango hosts the 13th annual Dr. Jane A. Williams Memorial 5K run/1 mile walk on campus on Saturday, Oct. 12.

2024-25 Penn State Laureate Michele Dunleavy, professor of dance at the University Park campus, will give a presentation and performance, “Improvising a Life,” at Penn State Shenango in the Shenango Auditorium at 12:15 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 18.

Retired Penn State Shenango Campus Director Jo Anne Carrick, along with her husband, John, have pledged a $50,000 gift to the campus to establish the Carrick Family Endowment for Penn State Shenango Athletics.

The Certified Family Life Educator credential, available through the Human Development and Family Studies degree program, was recently endorsed by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and the Office of Head Start.

A pair of multidisciplinary faculty members at Penn State Shenango received an Advancing Equity and Inclusion Grant from the Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence to help fund a series of four online workshops focused on project-based learning. 

Penn State Shenango Physical Therapist Assistant students and faculty recently volunteered at the Medical Equipment Recycling Program in Farrell.

Matthew Caputo, associate teaching professor of engineering at Penn State Shenango, is exploring the fatigue behaviors of nickel-titanium shape memory alloys.

As teacher take the lead in protests over pay, unions face an uncertain future, writes Berkeley sociologist Bruce Fuller.

Education Week sat down with American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten for a conversation about the recent wave of teacher activism and how the unions are preparing for the Janus decision.

"This lawsuit will enable teachers like me to recover the agency fees that we were wrongly forced to pay against our will," said one of the plaintiffs.

The current batch of teacher strikes, including in West Virginia and Oakland, Calif., are not just about pay.

The Mackinac Center for Public Policy is partnering with think tanks and advocacy groups across the country in a campaign encouraging public employees to consider dropping their union memberships.

Schools are not preparing students to enter an increasingly diverse world, writes high school senior Zoë Jenkins.

Anti-racist school leadership is about becoming more racially aware and taking action, explains Denisa R. Superville.

Get an overview of this fall’s Big Ideas special report, which is dedicated to addressing anti-Black systemic racism in schools.

A new nationally representative survey of teachers, principals, and district leaders offers key takeaways.

When a student noticed that no one was teaching her classmates about racism, she took matters into her own hands, Catherine Gewertz reports.

Black Lives Matter, climate change, family separation? All appropriate classroom topics, writes Christina Torres.

Controversy over a proposal to admit students by lottery to a highly selective school in Virginia echoes a nationwide debate over how to include more Blacks, Latinos, and low-income students in advanced academic programs.

President Trump and the U.S. Department of Education are wrong to target the valuable toolkit, argue David E. DeMatthews and Terri N. Watson.

The vice presidential candidate was bused to school as child. Her experience could inform national education policy, writes Jonathan E. Collins.

Spotlight Education week continues with "Frontline" reports on for-profit colleges and a "TED Talks" special featuring a mix of education voices.

Lots of ink for this new America's Promise report finding increased high school graduation rates from 2002 to 2008, as well as a decrease in the number of high schools with very high drop-out rates. Good news, ok, but still no cause for celebration: As my colleague Andy Rotherham notes, our nation's

English-language learners are twice as likely to drop out of school as their peers who are either native English speakers or former ELLs who have become fluent in the language.

The film follows three Indianapolis adults as they seek to overcome obstacles on the path to earning an educational credential that they missed earlier.

More than 40 states are considering postsecondary and career readiness in school performance in some way in their Every Student Succeeds Act plans.

Many children whose parents didn't go to college aim for degrees in higher education, but they're far less prepared to go to college than their peers who grew up with college-educated parents, finds a new report.

The College Board's plan to score students' 'level of disadvantage' based on their schools and neighborhoods has some college counselors asking: Will wealthy parents try to game the system?

Two recent studies of Teach to One: Math highlight the tension in math between grade-level-based accountability systems and approaches to instruction that enable more personalized paths to college and career readiness.

An EL Education school in Rochester, NY, shows that giving young children real problems to solve can instill the qualities students will need as adults.

Preparing students for the workforce isn't the most important purpose of higher education, according to a survey of the trustees that lead the country's colleges and universities.

In a recent high-profile case, Harvard College rescinded its offer to a school-shooting survivor after racist comments he’d written online surfaced. But how common is it for colleges to take back offers? And do students have any recourse?

Only 3 percent of adults think students are "very prepared" for college when they graduate from high school, according to a Gallup survey released last week.

In a new exploration of dual enrollment, the Education Commission of the States calls on states to rethink their restrictive policies.

Students from low-income families face a bumpier road than their wealthier peers, according to the National Center for Education Statistics' annual Condition of Education data compendium.

Dig into what two leading Democratic presidential candidates have to say in their platforms about charter schools with Education Week's detailed analysis.

A three-judge panel from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against a proposed plan that would have paid certain student-athletes as much as $5,000 annually in deferred compensation.

Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts signed a bill into law Wednesday that expands the state's anti-hazing regulations to elementary, middle, and high schools rather than just post-secondary institutions.

How can you teach students to distinguish right from wrong when they see others violate moral standards shamelessly? Eminent psychologist Albert Bandura explains the perils of moral disengagement.

A new study shows that police shootings affect the learning and emotional well-being of students in nearby schools, particularly nonwhite students.

As an attempt to mitigate a persistent school supply problem, New Mexico plans to give some 23,000 teachers prepaid gift cards for use on classroom materials. One local union calls it a distraction from larger funding issues.

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