With this Safer School Supplies: Shopping Guide, parents, teachers, and students can make more informed decisions while shopping for school supplies this season. We want to give parents and teachers the option to choose school supplies that do not contain…

Students throughout the United States and Europe face many similar tasks throughout their education, from preparing for exams to writing papers. But there are glaring differences when it comes to foreign language education – or lack thereof – and the…

The federal School Improvement Grant program allocated $7 billion over nearly a decade in an effort to produce rapid and lasting improvements in schools identified as low performing. A study indicates that Ohio’s SIG program significantly increased reading and math…

Does one-to-one coaching help teachers get better? Our analysis of results from across 60 studies found that coaching works. With coaching, the quality of teachers’ instruction improves by as much as—or more than—the difference in effectiveness between a novice and…

Elementary principals’ main concerns are students’ emotional problems, mental health issues, poverty, and other factors connected to well-being. Many of those issues did not crack the top 10 concerns of principals just a decade ago.

Charter schools in Washington are serving students with disabilities, and almost all of them are doing so at rates higher than the state average, and the district in which they are located. It is important to note that Washington state…

Reading and Writing Instruction in America’s Schools, authored by Fordham’s senior research and policy associate David Griffith and FDR Group’s Ann Duffett, suggests real progress in implementing state ELA standards, but also—like the baseline 2013 report—real cause for concern. For…

This quiz is sponsored by National Science Teachers Association (NSTA). Education Week has full editorial control of content. Question #1: True or False: According to the 2015 National Assessment of Education Progress, gaps are increasing between black and Hispanic students and their white…

States are evaluated by the Education Department each year in how well they meet both the regulations of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, as well as how students with disabilities are performing academically.

Recent U.S. education reform has focused on defining and raising the subject-matter standards students are expected to meet. In order to get their students up to snuff, schools are extending the school day and putting more and more emphasis on…

This Statistics in Brief examines differences in the student and school characteristics of kindergartners who participated in instructional programs designed to teach English language skills and students who did not participate in such programs in the kindergarten class of 2010–11.…

This study examines a teacher incentive policy in Washington State that awards a financial bonus to National Board certified teachers in high poverty schools. The bonus policy increased the proportion of certified teachers in bonus-eligible schools by improving hiring, increasing…