When Schools Close in Rural Communities
Schools across the country close down each year for a variety of reasons. In rural areas like Hughes, Ark., it’s often because they are serving smaller numbers of students and it no longer makes...
View ArticleA Photographer’s View of Ron Brown College Prep
Photographer Jared Soares discusses his experiences, and shares his favorite images from documenting faculty and students at Ron Brown College Preparatory High School in Washington, D.C. The...
View ArticleA Look at Recruiting and Keeping Good Teachers
Sarah Stucky, a history and economics teacher at Niles North High School in Skokie, Ill., drops off her 3-year-old son Emmett Lawler at the day-care facility housed at her school. –Alyssa Schukar for...
View ArticleWhat It Felt Like to Be at the Los Angeles Teacher Strike: A Reporter’s...
Thousands of teachers rallied through downtown Los Angeles to demand higher pay, more support staff, and smaller classes. UPDATED Education Week reporter Catherine Gewertz and photographer Morgan...
View ArticleTeachers Show off their #BlackHistoryBookShelf “Shelfies”
For Black History Month, we called on teachers and librarians to send in pictures of the books and resources they used to celebrate the month. Educators flooded the #BlackHistoryBookshelf hashtag with...
View ArticleYoung People Gather Across the Globe in Climate Strike
Gallery By Kaitlyn Dolan Young people across the globe marched, protested, and signaled calls to action today to urge leaders to address climate change. Here’s what it looked like: Lola Jones holds a...
View ArticleWhat Remote Learning Looks Like During the Coronavirus Crisis
We asked parents, students, and educators to share what their home learning environments look like as nearly all schools are shut down for extended periods because of the coronavirus pandemic. Maddie...
View ArticleStruggling to Stay Connected on Maryland’s Eastern Shore as Teaching Moves...
As teachers across the country grapple with the challenges that come with remote learning due to the coronavirus pandemic, an elementary school teacher on Maryland’s Eastern Shore faces the added...
View ArticleAn EdWeek Cover, Our Illustrator’s Process
Education Week has always relied on strong visuals to accompany the stories we report. But with most of the country under stay-at-home orders, and students and teachers learning from home, the visuals...
View Article‘They Make Those Caps and Gowns Look Amazing’
(Video courtesy of Reel Affair Productions) June 4, 2020. That day will go down as one of the most special for Samantha Navarro, principal of the New Millennium Secondary School in Gardena, Calif. A...
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