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?

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

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.

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.

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

"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.

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.

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

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

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.

A national union for principals is campaigning to increase its membership, drafting in part off the momentum created by the surge in educator activism over the past two years.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

U.S. Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett said it would be "unthinkable" for the landmark "Brown" desegregation decision to be overruled.

The first season of the Netflix political potboiler was rich with education-policy plotlines, and we're hoping for more of the same.

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

Eliminating credit recovery as a path to graduation would do more harm than good, writes one assistant superintendent.

John W. Myres, a retired teacher and superintendent, shares five hard realities educators must face as they try to improve their schools.

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

The district is reconnecting high school dropouts by focusing on life goals, academic gaps, social-emotional challenges, and personal commitments.

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?

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?

High-performing urban schools lent moral authority and measurable results to the charter school sector. Why do advocates give them the cold shoulder? Fordham's Robert Pondiscio answers.

Two high school softball coaches are immune from a student's privacy lawsuit because there was no clearly established law barring school officials from discussing a student's private matters with the student's parent.

The National Labor Relations Board unanimously declined jurisdiction Monday in the case involving Northwestern University football players attempting to unionize.

A federal appeals court has struck down an Indiana school district's policy requiring short hair for boys on the basketball team, ruling that the lack of a similar policy for girls'-team basketball players results in illegal sex discrimination.

The parents of a 16-year-old who died last fall from football-related brain trauma are suing the New York school districts he played for and the medical responders who tended to him the night he sustained his fatal injury.

Teacher-student relationships matter a lot. Research suggests a number of ways to strengthen them, writes Heather C. Hill.

More high school students than ever are graduating, and a new report suggests that’s not due to lowered standards—it’s because students are actually learning more.

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

"Are all my elves ready? OK, off we go!" A group of Santa and his elves head out into Karuizawa, Japan, to share God’s love.

No studies sufficiently answer the question, finds the GAO, which means debates over whether newer restorative-justice approaches help or harm safety are likely to continue.

It's unrealistic to expect anyone to invest totally dispassionately. But there are ways to transform risk, writes Hannes Viljoen.

The miner says Transnet knows full well where its own inefficiencies lie and it needs to start addressing these.

In South Africa, an astounding 81% of Grade 4 pupils can't read for meaning. It's time we looked at approaches in other markets that have clearly delivered results, says Nick Hedley.

Concerningly for South Africa, the question of whether our laws and regulations provide sanctions and penalties that are commensurate to the harm caused by white-collar criminals remains a matter of contested viewpoints, writes Khaya Sithole.

Our freedom, and fortunes as a nation, lie with the likes of the independent and professional men and women as those at the head of the SA Reserve Bank, and very much unlike those at the NPA.

SARS continues to deny amaBhungane and the Financial Mail's requests for access to former president Jacob Zuma's tax records despite the seminal judgment of the Constitutional Court handed down in May 2023.

Despite criticism of electioneering, the Government Communication and Information System (GCIS) has defended its R7 million social-reality television show.

Most time management strategies are dropped as quickly as they are picked up for one key reason: insight is so much more important than theory, says Ian Mann. And this author's insight is invaluable.

Innovations that schools developed during their rapid transition to online instruction could inspire them to "rethink education," U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos said at a web conference with reporters.

Julie Gunlock closes out her week of guest blogging by lamenting how, despite the creative ideas out there, her school district, for example, doesn't seem to be deploying any of the innovative solutions we hear so much about.