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Federal Teacher-Quality Funds Spread Too Thinly, Brief Argues

A report suggests that the $2.5 billion program should focus more on continuous improvement than on scattershot activities.




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Early-Childhood Teachers

Early educators, including center directors, make far less than other Colorado professionals with similar degrees, says a report by Qualistar Colorado and the Women's Foundation of Colorado.




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Early-Childhood Teachers

Having a bachelor's degree, a top-notch grade point average, and a relatively high level of work experience actually reduce the chance that a job applicant will be called in for an interview with a child-care provider, concludes new research by Kent State and Arizona State universities.




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What Early-Childhood Accountability Can Learn From K-12's Mistakes

Education needs to stop going around in circles, writes Stanford’s Thomas S. Dee.




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Literacy-Rich Preschool Classrooms Key to Early Reading

Expert says labels, books, and writing centers all help with skill development




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How Will Schools Teach English-Language Learners This Fall?

A new database offers a state-by-state look at guidance on supporting English-learner students and their families amid the global pandemic.




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Combatting Urban Teacher Turnover

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




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How to Make Lessons Cohesive When Teaching Both Remote and In-Person Classes

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




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Teaching in the Fall: Get Ready to Meet Students Where They Are

When they come back to us in the fall, our students’ need for connection, belonging, and real-world experience will be fierce, and we need to adjust our approach based on their needs, writes teacher Ariel Sacks.




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Bitmoji Classrooms: Why Teachers Are Buzzing About Them

Many teachers who will be leading classes remotely are building colorful virtual environments for their students featuring avatar versions of themselves. Some districts are even mandating trainings on how to create them.




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The 8 Things Teachers Know for Certain When Schools Reopen

There are some serious questions that still need answers, but there are a few certainties that teachers can hold onto, writes Casey M. Bethel.




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Teaching and Learning in the Pandemic

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.




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Teachers, Live Screen Time Is Precious. Use It Well

Research suggests a way to restructure remote learning to give students what they've been missing, write H. Alix Gallagher and Ben Cottingham.




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Deciding What to Teach? Here's How

To make up for lost time, instructional leaders will need to streamline curricula and offer "just-in-time" support. These steps can help.




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Teacher Tips: How to Reduce Screen Time When School Is Online

Concerns about screen time are not new—but they are heightened when kids across the country are spending much of their school day online.




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A Day in the Life of a Hybrid Teacher

It involves pivoting between two laptops, students online and in person, and a lot of safety precautions, writes teacher Mary M. McConnaha.




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Are Aspiring Teachers Learning Classroom Management? It Varies

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




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In-Person Learning Expands, Student Absences Up, Teachers Work Longer, Survey Shows

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




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Faculty earn Advancing Equity and Inclusion Grant for project-based learning

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. 




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Shenango engineering faculty to explore fatigue behaviors in 3D-printed material

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




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Are Teachers' Unions Finished?

It's the potential beginning of the end of teachers' unions in this country.




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Is This the End of Teachers' Unions?

Today, the United States Supreme Court will hear a challenge to mandatory union fees that originates in California. Is this a fundamental challenge to teacher unionism?




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Could the Next Strike in Education Be Against the Teachers' Union?

The staff union for the National Education Association is threatening to strike over contract negotiations.




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Teachers Are Organizing. But What About Teachers' Unions?

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




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Unions Are Barrier to Better Teachers

To the Editor: Education Week Teacher blogger Nancy Flanagan recently wrote about how some states require a higher score on state certification tests for teacher-licensing exams—which makes it "unreasonably difficult" to get into teaching—while others eliminate licensing requirements to fill classr.




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'This Road Just Got a Lot Harder': Teachers' Unions Hit With New Round of Lawsuits

In the wake of the 'Janus' Supreme Court case, teachers' unions are facing more than a dozen legal challenges backed by right-leaning groups that could further dampen their membership numbers and finances.




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Are Teachers' Unions on the Brink of Demise?

With the Janus case looming before the Supreme Court, teachers' unions are knocking on doors to try to boost membership and mitigate financial loss.




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After Janus Ruling, Teachers Are Suing for Return of Fees They've Paid Their Unions

"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.




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The Teachers' Unions Have a Charter School Dilemma

With the first charter school strike in the books—and teachers coming out victorious—experts say both unions and charter schools may need to rethink how they’ve long operated.




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Unions Must Go Beyond Advocacy




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For Teachers' Unions to Survive, It's Time to Go Positive for Students

Whether Janus will be a death blow or a turning point for unions depends on what they do now, writes Paul Reville.




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Teachers Are Still Striking, But Their Demands Have Changed. Here's How

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




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Conservative Group Expands Push to Get Teachers to Leave Their Unions

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.




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Presidential Hopeful Kamala Harris Promises Teachers a Raise

Presidential hopeful Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., made her first policy pitch on the campaign trail Saturday: A new federal program to boost teacher pay.




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Teachers' Unions

Teachers who do not belong to their unions see value in the organizations but still say they would opt out of paying mandatory fees if given the choice, finds a new survey.




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Teachers' Unions

Efforts to unionize teachers in charter schools are picking up in a handful of states, and counter efforts by school administrators to tamp them down often backfire, according to a study by the University of Washington's Center on Reinventing Public Education.




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Are Strained Police Relations With Black Teens a Solvable Problem?

A leadership program for young Black men looks to confront racism in law enforcement. Corey Mitchell explains.




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Do America's Public Schools Owe Black People Reparations?

School districts must make amends for their racist history, writes Daarel Burnette II. What should that look like?




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Internet Access Is a Civil Rights Issue

In the world’s wealthiest country, why is broadband access denied to so many and in such high numbers? Mark Lieberman investigates.




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'Was I Part of the Problem?' A Journalist Studies Her Own Reporting on Race

Veteran reporter Debra Viadero invites researchers to scrutinize her decades of reporting for racial bias.




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There Is Nothing Fragile About Racism

Labeling whiteness as "weak" does not reflect the racial terror people of color feel, writes Bettina L. Love.




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Principals Need Help Building Anti-Racist Schools

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




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Dismantling Systemic Racism in Schools: 8 Big Ideas

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




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Anti-Racist Teaching: What Educators Really Think

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




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An Open Letter to a Parent Afraid of Anti-Racist Education

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




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How COVID-19 Is Hurting Teacher Diversity

Layoffs that are based on seniority can disproportionately affect Black and brown teachers.




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Editor's Note: Big Ideas for Confronting Racism in Education

Here's why we chose to dedicate our entire Big Ideas special report to addressing anti-Black systemic racism in schools.




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No, Critical Race Theory Isn't 'Anti-American'

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




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N.C. watchdog agency critiques teacher diversity efforts




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Do America's Public Schools Owe Black People Reparations?

School districts must make amends for their racist history, writes Daarel Burnette II. What should that look like?